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The CT River dumps into Long Island Sound over at the far right. This tree trunk, probably six feet wide at the bottom of the roots, arrived some three years ago.
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Found this on my first kayaking trip around North Cove yesterday, on a northeast facing wall, shortly after low tide.
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I returned here a few days after taking this photo, at about the same time of the day, and the backlight on the smoke bush was again spectacular.
A man was standing where I had been, clutching a large drawing pad and furiously sketching the scene before it shifted. His concentration was such that I felt a little bad even saying hello, and apologizing for walking into the scene briefly to ID the yellow flowers in the foreground. “Oh I can work around you..”
Turns out they’re coreopsis, surrounded by milkweed and white columbine.
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That’s North Cove in the foreground, and the CT River flowing under the Baldwin Bridge and I-95 in the back.
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Last year the marsh behind our neighbor’s house was overflowing with great egrets, most of them juveniles. They stayed for a couple of weeks in early April, probably decimated the fish and and amphibian population in the place, and then were gone.
This year, just a few showed up, and I only photographed a couple of times: this adult, who proved a patient model, and later, a juvenile who would not even stick around for a single shot.
Their majestic beauty and placid manner belie skillful and ruthless abilities as predators; this one caught and swallowed a fish just one minute earlier.
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Four days after anonymously taking (and posting) this photo, I actually met the couple on the Causeway in Old Saybrook, where they were walking and I was photographing. I recognized them immediately as we struck up a conversation, and mentioned taking their picture and subsequently posting it, while possibly (also) taking liberties with the title. Lo and behold, no problem there, as they (Susan and Peter) have been married 48 years, a lifetime of “living, laughing, fighting and loving”, as Susan describes it.
I’m not sure they would have agreed to a portrait out there on the Causeway, but I think it would have been a good one – they are a handsome couple and the late afternoon light was remarkable. Unfortunately I only had a behemoth Sigma 150-600mm rental with me – good for distant birds, not so good for close portraits. And so it goes ..
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