12 quick images today.

Sharing the same itch?  American Coot and male Canvasback duck.

Step lightly. Killdeer.

Wisconsin Badger?  Sorry folks this is a Colorado Badger.

Busy as a……bee on a Coneflower

Background noise.  A male Hooded Merganser with a distant female Bufflehead in the background.

Northern Shoveler.

Yellow-rumped Warbler in autumn.  I know I go on and on about my love for the mood and the color changes in fall, but bird migration is everywhere you look and a big part of what makes this season special.

Peace and harmony. Boat harbor at sunrise.  Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Lupine love.  Illinois Beach State Park South.

The Goodlands.  Commonly known as The Badlands of South Dakota.

The greatest season.  Well for me anyway.

The American Legion State Forest, Wisconsin, in early autumn.

The Chequamegan National Forest, Wisconsin.  Some roads are worth the journey.  I lack the words to describe just how much I enjoy roads like the one you see below.

For those of you who know me you will be relieved to know that the bottom of this page was originally filled with my opinions on current political and social issues, and I chose to delete them. I figured for a guy who admits he doesn’t read other people’s opinions, maybe I should give you some relief from mine.

For those of you who haven’t been here for a while and wonder what I am writing about, most of the posts you see below originally contained my opinions on current social/political issues. In some case they were much longer than what remains in the post. I have taken to deleting those strong opinion sections a few days after they are published.  I do this so this so that I and this blog will be remembered as a photographer and a photo blog, not a social commentator or a blog of that sort.  If you actually want to read my opinions ( bless you) on the issues of the day, just subscribe to Earth Images via email.  Subscribers get to see everything. Then brace yourself.

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” ~Abraham Maslow

Thank you for stopping and enjoy this day, it is a gift from God,                                               Wayne

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