The real Fairy Villages event Today Winding Trails!

I am looking forward to photographing the Fairy Villages again this year. I have been photographing them the last 4 years for Winding Trails & we do a slideshow afterwards. This year they will probably be covered with lots of raindrops! Here's another miniature fairy house from a previous year.

The Fairy Villages of Winding Trails

Well Fairy Houses don't exactly fly, they are miniature villages built of nature materials like twigs, feathers, berries and shells. These can be seen every year at Winding Trails' "Nature's Open House" an annual Fall event. This year it's on October 1 and 2. You could stretch a point and say that maybe the fairies fly in and inhabit the houses when we're not watching...who knows? Here is a link to the slideshow I made about

them. The houses in the photo are from previous years.

For those who didn't make it to the shore this weekend...

Such a delight were these graceful shorebirds at sunset. I took these photos near Sandy Point, West Haven, Connecticut. Lengthiest subject is a determined Snowy Egret, trying all manners of forays in and out of the water in pursuit of the ultimate dinner. Later he joins a colony of swans who eye him suspiciously and off to the side, a community of gulls teaches their teenaged young how to fly.

Shorebirds Slideshow Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSsYkm6svn8

Link to excerpt from Shorebirds slideshow to be aired Tuesday September 6 and 13, 2011 on Nutmeg TV.

Lovely Snowy Egret looking for his dinner on West Haven Shore

These photos taken near Sandy Point, Connecticut in August in the bright sun of late afternoon. Photos of this snowy egret and other birds will be featured in this week's TV show in my slideshow series, "Natural Delights" on Nutmeg TV in Connecticut.  Airings are on September 6 and 13, 2011 at 7:30PM, Channel 5 or 99.

Tulips and more tulips! Spring Reveries show last airing tonight

Tonight at 7:30 on Channel 5 (for those who may live in my area - Avon, Farmington, Bristol, New Britain, Canton, Berlin, Plainville and nearby).  A delightful musical slideshow of tulips, spring birds and other delights enjoyed at this time of year. This is the last airing for Spring Reveries...another show comes next week.

My new "Natural Delights" TV show airing Tuesdays

Happy May day!  How glad I am to see the sunshine and tulips, though I won't be able to post any more "birds freezing in the snow" photos for a while. I'm so excited to be airing a musical slideshow every week on Channel 5, Nutmeg TV at 7:30PM featuring my nature photography. WE just started this series - a first for me. This week's show is entitled "Spring Reveries."  It will feature the tulips of Elizabeth park as well as many other spring delights. I'm also giving a short class this month entitled "The Art of Photography" at Farmington Continuing Education.