I like walking around Burke Lake. It is a 4.5 mile loop and with my side bits comes out to a five-mile hike. I hadn't been out locally for a while, so chose this hike to do on a beautiful day.
First up, a shot of the lake and the colors. The colors weren't amazing, but they were quite nice.
First up, a shot of the lake and the colors. The colors weren't amazing, but they were quite nice.
Two Canada geese on the lake in front of trees in Fall
And, how bad a fisherman do you have to be to get two of the same rigs in a tree. Well, here is a photo of two bobbers, two snap swivels, and two of the same rubber lures all in a bunch hanging in space from a tree. Someone was having a bad day.
Bundle of fishing gear hanging from a tree. Bummer I could not reach it to throw it away. Fishing gear in trees is hard on the birds that get caught up in it.
Things started to get a bit more art-like after this, as I didn't find standard wildlife shots. So next up is a yellow jacket. It was basking on a leaf, and I had on my telephoto lens, so got the best pic I could without changing lenses. Kinda a good thing, as it flew off seconds after this photo.
A yellow jacket. Which one, I am not quite sure of, but it looks like an Eastern yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons)
This next photo, of an eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), I was dubious about when I took it. It had all the hallmarks of a great shot of a squirrel with fall foliage behind it, but seemed impossible to get the lighting right. I think I did okay with it.
Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) on a sunny fall day
Two final pics. The first is of a great blue heron, a species I continually say I will stop posting pics of. But they are mostly gone from this area now, headed south, so I post this wishing them well on their journeys.
A great blue heron fishing at Burke Lake
And then there is this. I don't post much art here, but from a photo I took today here is a sumi-e interpretation of fall in northern Virginia.
Fall as I see it with sumi-e art
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