The View Outside the Window
Just wandering about …
The Pond on Hanover Parkway – Late September 2012
So there were these turtles that decided to sun themselves on the rock.
While the geese do their ablutions for the day before they take off. I’m very lucky that I can just drive a short bit and fine wildlife just around the corner. It makes me smile.
National Arboretum – 2012 September 9
So the National Arboretum is just on the outskirts of Washington D.C. and it has many styles of gardens from the well manicure to a little bit wild. They have these greek style columns.
What’s a garden without a bug or two.
Buddy Attick Park – Greenbelt Lake – 2012 Sept 10
So after a long summer of not going to the Greenbelt Lake, I went back but there were many birds. I think because this has become a popular spot for the humans and the birds were brooding. Anyway it’s nice to go back.
Centennial Park – Ellicott City Maryland – September 2012
So Centennial Park is another suburban park in the Baltimore Washington area. It’s a place of picnics both human and waterfowl.
It’s very pleasant and people have a way to get away from the hustle and bustle.
And there is also the Canadian Geese Flotilla swimming along side the human powered boats.
Canadian Geese have a great deal of power in their legs. When they swim, it looks without effort.
Siesta at Don Pablo’s Restaurant
So it’s always a bit weird that ducks relax near the restaurant. I guess they know they are not on the menu!
Lake Artemesia on Sunny August Afternoon – 18 August 2012
So I was out a very nice summer’s day especially for Maryland not so hot as to be uncomfortable perhaps too sunny. Many of the other birds must have been elsewhere but there were other Nature’s flying creatures about.
A Rainy Evening – 17 August 2012
It was a grey, wet evening and this goose was all by itself in the rain.
An August Saturday Roaming – 11 August 2012
Took a ride on a miniature train ride and saw some
farm animals.
Then went on the road and saw a heron. Wish I could get closer or had a larger lens but there you have it. If you click through you’ll see other pics with the turtles, curious ducks, swimming geese …
Lake Needwood in Montgomery County – 4 August 2012
A flying bug taking a walk around the flowers near the lake.
The flowers are also refreshment for other insects.
This big fella was sunning on the tree in the lake.
The lake is a man made one. There’s boating and fishing available. I’m not a fisher person so the fish are safe from me. This lake is not from the maddening crowd so this a good place to re-center oneself.
By the Roadside in Greenbelt/Beltsville Area – 29 July 2012
So you can find bits of nature in the most interesting places from two turtles sunning themselves in a man made pond
To a goose walking to a roadside pond.
Ducks taking a shade in the afternoon sun.
And sunflowers by the corn fields!!!
The View Outside the Window 