Late Summertime Nature at the Sourland Mountain Preserve.
Battle weary alien warrior. What can I say… Looks like he needed cataract surgery. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 200 mm f/4 macro lens (ISO 400, 200 mm, f/11, 1/500 sec).

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Battle weary alien warrior. What can I say… Looks like he needed cataract surgery. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 200 mm f/4 macro lens (ISO 400, 200 mm, f/11, 1/500 sec).
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
My friend Harvey. Notice the mile-a-minute vine, but unfortunately the rabbit doesn’t eat it.
A groundhog approaching my patio. I am less patient with these critters. A number of years ago, one built its nest in a tunnel right next the basement’s foundation. They also have devastated my kitchen garden.