Traci Dickson Photography

As I paused with my camera to admire and capture the beauty of the irises blooming along a neighbors driveway this morning, I noticed something tender happening.

One bloom fully open, reaching outward and just beneath it another waiting quietly, held, sheltered, almost protected as it prepares to unfurl.

This bearded iris reminds us that we are often both at once
the one blooming, and the one still becoming.

Weather that makes you go”Hmmm”

Over the last two weeks, Suwanee, GA has experienced near-record highs of 82∘F on March 11 to a short snow flurry on Monday March 16th and this weather has this blue jay and I thinking, “hmmmm”.

Golden Eye

While I was watching and waiting for more songbird portrait opportunities with my neighbor's flowering forsythia, this agile juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk swooped in between the crepe myrtle tree and the azalea on the hunt for lunch!

While the songbirds skedaddled, he hopped about the base of the forsythia looking for that one cowering bird and eventually, realizing that all had dispersed, he popped up and perched amidst the forsythia branches.

I thought, here goes, shoot through the blossoms and lock focus on that golden eye!