Sunday Stills – Sunrises and Sunsets

June is Outdoors Month and this month Terri’s Sunday Stills challenges are all focused on the great outdoors. This challenge is Sunrises and Sunsets in the great outdoors.

The featured image and the next one are of recent sunsets in my neighborhood in coastal Georgia. The rest are from various places around the United States.

Sunset over the salt marsh, Georgia

Mount Redoubt sunset, Ninilchik, Alaska

Sunset at Devil’s Tower, Wyoming

Sunset over the Mississippi River

Sunrise in Everglades National Park, Florida

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge Sunday Stills Sunrise and Sunset in the Great Outdoors

Sunday Stills – Paths and Trails

June is Outdoors Month and this month Terri’s Sunday Stills challenges are all focused on the great outdoors. This challenge is Paths and Trails in the great outdoors.

I more of a wanderer than a hiker but I enjoy being out in the great outdoors. I like to take my time wandering on a scenic trail or path looking at the trees and searching for birds, wildlife, and wildflowers. The featured image is from the McKenzie Head Trail at Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington. The following are a few others that I have enjoyed.

We read the warnings and started on the trail anyway. We turned around after rattlesnakes were sighted on the trail in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas.

The trail leads to Landscape Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.

Swamp Trail, Silver Springs State Park, Florida

Boardwalk Trail at Stephen C. Foster State Park in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia

Walking through fire weed in Alaska

Trail at Eagle Creek, Ketchikan, Alaska

Shared Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge Sunday Stills Paths and Trails

Rosy Red Roseate Spoonbills

The color rosy red makes me think of Roseate Spoonbills. A few years ago I captured these beauties when we visited the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Wading Bird Rookery. During nesting season wading birds come to nest in the trees there. These nesting birds are wild and can come and go as they please.

Shared Terri’s Sunday Stills color challenge Rosy Reds

Winter Birds in Coastal Georgia

Feeding and watching the birds is a favorite pastime of mine. I have many bird pictures in my archives but I chose a few recent ones for Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge.

Great Egret
House Sparrow at the feeder

Northern Cardinal

Red-Bellied Woodpecker

Snowy Egret, Cormorant, and Seagull

Many thanks to Terri for her Sunday Stills challenge Feeding and watching the birds