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Richard likes his photography class, and he seems to have a good eye for seeing.
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An action pic.
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The view he was capturing. He was using black and white film, but this is the same image from my digital camera.
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It's been fun to see all the bird nests appear in the trees now that the foliage has dropped. This is an oriole nest.
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Leaves and reflections in the flooded riparian forest along the wetlands.
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The river was pretty swollen with water for about a week. This is a spot where we usually see great blue herons wading below the dam. The water is up about 5 feet here.
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Looking the other way down river.
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There was so much water that the billabong was flowing through the floodgate. That's the first time I've seen this much water in the billabong.
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the temperatures went up into the 60's and the sun came out for about 5 days in a row. Woohoo! We did a lot of nice walks in the balmy weather. The water levels fell sufficiently that the herons came back to the area below the dam.
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We don't see beautiful blue skies like this in Columbus very often. What a treat.
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The sun playing off the goldenrod infructescences was also very nice. These patches are full of sparrows and finches eating the seed.
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All of the berries from different species of shrubs also keep the bird populations happy during this time of year.
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Alas, the cloudy skies are back again, but I have this picture to remind me of a lovely, long weekend of beautiful fall weather.
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