I know that there really are only two people who are very very interested in each and every one of the pictures contained in this Blog. But some of them might be of interest to others:
So please....if a pictures strikes your fancy: VIEW IT IN THE LARGE FORMAT, BY CLICKING ON THE IMAGE. You won't believe the improvement.
Im Falle dass eines oder das andere von diesen Bildern von besonderem Interesse ist, so bitt' ich euch: SCHAUT'S ES IM GROSSFORMAT AN....Es ist der Muehe wert.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
HOLIDAY'S END
One last shot, taken by a kind stranger, in the garage at the airport in Miami.
Alle guten Dinge muessen ein Ende haben.
Die letzte Aufnahme in der Garage im Flughafen von Miami.
Zur Passportkontrolle.
Checking in, going through customs and passport control.
T H E E N D
is
T HE B E G I N N I N G.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Second last day, 24th November 2008
Second last breakfast at the Merlin House
The breakfast garden at the Merlin House.
Last Dinner in a small, and I mean small, Italian Restaurant
across the street from the Merlin House.
THE LAST SWIM
Der Suedlichste Strand, Cafee & Bar
A lovely girl on a lovely beach.
Im GOLF VON MEXICO
Monday, November 24, 2008
THE EVERGLADES -
A cormorant sits on an exposed branch, wings spread wide, to allow the sun and the wind to dry his feathers. All the while he scans the blue waters below for another meal: A blue gill or a young bass.
Over there, a blue heron stands in the reeds, as if frozen, imobile. Only his eyes dart from spot to spot. Also on the look-out for an eatable victim.
Overhead, a southern bald eagle lazily drifts on an upward current of warm air.
A white Ibis, his red beak curved like an arabian sabre, carefully struts through the shallow water.
On the other side of the pond, an Aligator, partially hidden by the roots of a gumbo limbo warms his blood in the last rays of a dying sun.
Sawgrass, swamp lillies, palm trees, strangler figs and so many more plants, too many to count, too beautiful to ignore, too rare not to protect, make up what is surely one of the worlds most varied, beautiful and interesting habitats: THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES.
Over there, a blue heron stands in the reeds, as if frozen, imobile. Only his eyes dart from spot to spot. Also on the look-out for an eatable victim.
Overhead, a southern bald eagle lazily drifts on an upward current of warm air.
A white Ibis, his red beak curved like an arabian sabre, carefully struts through the shallow water.
On the other side of the pond, an Aligator, partially hidden by the roots of a gumbo limbo warms his blood in the last rays of a dying sun.
Sawgrass, swamp lillies, palm trees, strangler figs and so many more plants, too many to count, too beautiful to ignore, too rare not to protect, make up what is surely one of the worlds most varied, beautiful and interesting habitats: THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES.
FLORIDA - THE EVERGLADES
Christin und ein Park Ranger.
Joe Singer....ohne ihn und viele andere Rangers
koennte dieses wichtige Naturschutzgebiet gar nicht bestehen.
Joe Singer, Park Ranger.
Without him and many like him,
this important Nature Preserve could not exist.
Nur vier der vielen Gesichter der Everglades. The many faces of the Everglades
Praerieartiges Grasland
Schilf
Reeds
Ferns and Palms and many other plants make an unpenetrable jungle.
Ferns und Palmen und viele andere Pflanzen machen einen undurchdrignlichen Junge.
In the EVERGLADES of FLORIDA
Unfortunately this was the only sighting of an Aligator.
Their shyness and our time constraints gave us no better opportunity.
Schade, dass dies unsere einzige Gelegenheit war einen Aligator zu fotographieren.
Die Scheue dieser reptilien und unsere viel zu kurze Zeit, die wir dort verbrachten, gab uns keine weitere Moeglichkeit.
Eine bunte Heuschrecke (?)
Die muss man aber vergroessert anschauen.
A blue Heron
Ein Blauer Reiher.
In the EVERGLADES of FLORIDA (2)
Since the Cormorant and/or the Anhinga has no oil glands to protect its plumage from the wet,
it has to dry its wings in the sun and the wind after each feeding dive.
Weil der Cormorant und'oder der Anhinga keine Oeldruesen besitzt, die seine Federn vom Wasser beschuetzen,
muss er nach jedem Tauch seine Federn in der sonne und dem wind trocknen lassen.
Trocken, der Anhinga ist fertig zu einem erneuten Tauch, um einen Fisch zu fangen.
Dried out, the Anhinga is ready for a new dive.
Jede Feder muss einzeln geputzt werden.
Each feather must be cleaned individually.
A Blue Heron waits in the reeds.
Der Blaue Reiher wartet geduldig im Schilf.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
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