Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Garden in the Woods 5/22/2011

I originally drove out to Garden in the Woods- which is all the way in Framingham- to try and get some pictures of Mountain Laurel. unfortunately, it wasn’t blooming yet. But I got some great pictures none-the-less. It’s about a mile loop through the woods, where there’s a pond (with frogs!), a stream, and cultivated gardens of both native and rare species. I was very happy to see lady slippers 9and yellow ones, too). I had just commented to Rob the day before that we had them in our woods growing up and I hadn’t seen any in a long time.

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Cat was following me around, I assume it lives there

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I was walking around, hunting for frogs. I knew there had to be some

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Lady slipper

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Moose Hill 5/21/2011

The first of my stop at the Mass Audobon Society‘s wildlife sanctuaries. This one is in Sharon, so not too far away. Only problem- we forgot bug spray. It was a beautiful hike, but we got absolutely eaten alive! Overall it was worth it though, it’s very wooded, and there are some sections with ponds and marshes.

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I love the texture of the moss, it's so soft

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We saw these on the way home actually, they're either azaleas or rhododendron

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I didn't realize rhododendron came in these colors, so much prettier than the purple!

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Ames Nowell State Park 5/14/2011

We decided since it was such a nice weekend to go to the state park, too. More baby geese! 2 families of them here. One of them was blocking the path for a while, and didn’t want to let anyone by at all. We walked through the woods a little, and just sat by the water and relaxed too.

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Looks at his huge cheeks!

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Love this one :)

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You shall not pass

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This is where we sat for a while

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DW Field Park 5/13/2011

First shoot with my new camera! I had to do a lot of adjusting, but I’m really happy overall. And there were baby geese! A family with a bunch of babies. I was very thankful for my zoom lens, since the parents were NOT going to let us close to their babies. They even tried to cross the street at one point, a man and his son were trying to stop cars, but they must’ve decided it was too scary and went back. We saw the swan again, with all the geese and ducks at the usual spot. There was also one single grey goose- he was obnoxiously loud.

Tons of picture this time, I know, but I was just loving the camera!

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I'm watching you! No coming near my babies!

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TOO cute

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Cowbird

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Lots of fish in the lake, must really be spring now!

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One of the kids feeding the geese dubbed him "loudmouth"

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Geese are strange

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I've been informed that he's a snow goose. He was all alone though.

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They don't look very elegant when they eat.

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Incoming!

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When they spread their wings like that they look like the swan boats

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Make way for.... goslings

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Stopping traffic

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WANT

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Ames Nowell State Park 4/30/2011

In my quest to photograph as many parks/sanctuaries in MA as possible this summer, I was planning on going to the sanctuary in either Moose Hill or Marshville- but it rained most of the day. So when it let up for a while later in the day, I decided to go to the state park. It’s in Abington, but less than 10 minutes from us. It reminded me a lot of Gay City State Park as a kid- lots of woods around the lake, even the bridge looks similar.

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Fiddlehead! They always remind me of Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, now.

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Someone IDed this for me but I didn't write it down and I forgot.

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Catbird

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