Marty’s photo of the day #4290: I love photographing brown pelicans. They have so much character! I photographed this bunch on a tiny island in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico).
So much character!
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Month: February 2023
Pileated woodpecker
Marty’s photo of the day #4289: Pileated woodpecker, photographed at the Essen Wildlife Refuge, Montana.
Saddleback caterpillar
Marty’s photo of the day #4288: It’s a saddleback caterpillar. Don’t touch! (Photographed on the island of Borneo)
Heliconia
Iceberg close-up
Dall sheep, doing their thing
Marty’s photo of the day #4285: To fully appreciate this photo, you’ll need a screen bigger than what’s on a typical smartphone. These are Dall sheep (also called thinhorn sheep) on a sheer mountainside. Photographed north of the Arctic Circle, in Alaska.
Spring preview
Marty’s photo of the day #4284: Here’s a spring preview shot, for all those who can’t wait for it to come around. (Photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana)
Elephants at sunset
Chinstrap penguin
Marty’s photo of the day #4282: Chinstrap penguin, photographed on an island off the coast of Antarctica.
The brunch show
Marty’s photos of the day #4279-4781: Today, I’m featuring three pictures from my weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee: 1. This morning I performed Around the World in 50 Minutes for the Parent’s Weekend Brunch at Southern Adventist University. Meal shows are usually death. For those of you who have watched the Amazon Prime series, The Marvelous […]
Meeting Jeff Strand
Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee! I’ve just returned to my hotel room after a delightful dinner with Jeff Strand and his wife, Lynne Hansen. For those who don’t know who Jeff Strand is, he is the master of a fairly obscure genre, called horror/comedy. I write in an equally obscure genre that I call science-fiction/political-comedy, so […]
Yellow-headed blackbird
Marty’s photo of the day #4278: Yellow-headed blackbird, photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.
Caribou
Slightly pissed off
Marty’s photo of the day #4276: While hiking across Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe, Deb and I met this slightly pissed off elephant, digging for water in a dry riverbed.
Come play with the puppy!
Marty’s photo of the day #4275: Nellie hurt her left rear leg late last summer. We had the vet look at it, but she couldn’t figure out the problem without sedating Nellie for an X-ray. The injury doesn’t appear to be serious, as the only time it’s noticeable is when she gets up from a […]
Annie the black flying fox
Marty’s photo of the day #4274: This is Annie, a black flying fox that I photographed in northern Queensland. She is a rescue animal, who once was a pet. Because of that, she doesn’t know how to fly. She now participates in a breeding program, where she gives birth to one pup a year. Researchers […]
Blue-footed booby
Marty’s photo of the day #4273: Blue-footed booby, photographed on an island in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico).
Chattanooga love!
Marty’s photos of the day #4269-4272: By some quirk, Chattanooga, Tennessee has become a very special city for me. I have performed “Around the World in 90 Minutes” there four times, and a week from today, I will add a fifth performance with a show at Southern Adventist University. It’s also the only city where […]
Night heron
Marty’s photo of the day #4268: Night heron, photographed on a tiny island in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico).
Female elephant seal
Marty’s photo of the day #4267: Female elephant seal, photographed on a tiny island along the coast of Antarctica.