Fish, Flowers, and Fading Light

[yourlibrarian]

Crossposting some items from my latest blogpost. I had some past posts of the giant fish in our lake. Despite our long stay here we don't see them often. But last week we spotted a fin circling around...





I daresay the swirling patterns of its movement are particularly obvious because of the algae just below the surface.

Our amaryllis were in bloom recently, all of them popping up around the same time.





What I liked about this sunset pic was how the water reflection made it look like the shape on an eye -- one that was closing.

Comments

[shirebound]

Wow, those fish are enormous!

[yourlibrarian]

Heh, yes, most are around 2 feet but we saw a pair of really big ones the one time that were utter giants.

[jesse_the_k]

Wow! All wonderful.

[yourlibrarian]

:)

[numachi]

So beautiful!

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you liked the pics!

[blessed_oak]

I like fish, and you don't see as many pictures of them - yours are cool. And I'm hooked on your nesting birds updates! Robins' nests can be pretty sturdy, though; I have one from last year in the top of a small maple tree that looks as though it's still move-in-able.

[yourlibrarian]

Oh yes, it's really impressive how well they construct those nests with no hands! And they keep it very clean too, unlike the mourning doves who are messy in all senses.

And glad you liked the fish. We get very few sightings of them given how many there clearly are. Usually they're not near the surface and the lake is too wavy or ripply to be able to see beneath it. For whatever reason this fish was spending a good deal of time swimming at the surface that day and it was back the following day as well. But we haven't seen it since early last week.

[rydra_wong]

But last week we spotted a fin circling around...

Is it inappropriate that my brain keeps playing the "Jaws" theme music? *g*

[yourlibrarian]

Not in the least, it certainly seemed large enough for it as long as it wasn't a great white!

[turlough]

The sunset photo is stunning!

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks! There are various sunset pics included in the link at the post just before this one. This one may be my favorite since this photo came out less impressively than the sunset itself. (It was also less eye catching than the pic with the hummingbird)

Also, if you like winter sunsets, there is this post.