Thursday, January 19, 2006

Chattahoochee Nature Center


Great Blue Heron
Originally uploaded by PhoebeJ.
I went to Atlanta on business and found myself "shopped out" at the Gift Mart. My flight wasn't leaving until 3:30 PM so I rented a car and took myself to the Chattahoochee Nature Center about 30 miles north of Atlanta. It was a gray day so the lighting wasn't great, but there were some nice birds.

Here's a Great Blue Heron. No trick to taking a decent picture of a GBH (in England GBH means "grievous bodily harm"--but I digress) especially when they are standing still.

I saw a tree with interesting exfoliating bark. My neighbor in Connecticut always likes trees with exfoliating bark because they provide "winter interest." Every profession has its jargon!

Exfoliating Bark

3 comments:

Grumpy Old Man said...

i like the reflected reeds BEHIND the heron.

Phoebe said...

Yeah, I cropped it so that you can't see the reeds themselves because I wanted the heron to be bigger.

Nancy said...

Nice looking heron!

Hey, you know anything about the Waterbury area? Anywhere a couple could live nearby that would not cost a fortune and is a good place to live?