SPIDER MAN - A yellow Cat Face Spider spinning a web on a Bee Balm flower. Spiders are beneficial arthropods, that survive by feeding on insects. Oftentimes they are the most important biological control of insect pests in gardens.
Photography by Rich Gigli
Photography By Rich Gigli
THE SUMMER WIND – “The summer wind came blowin’ in from across the sea. It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me. All summer long we sang a song, and then we strolled that golden sand, two sweethearts and the summer wind.” (Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1966).
Photo was taken along the Cavendish beach , Prince Edward Island, Canada.
THE SUMMER WIND - The summer wind came blowin' in
Photography by Rich Gigli
The Frog Prince, is a fairy tale, best known through the Brothers Grimm's written version; In the tale, a spoiled princess reluctantly befriends a frog (possibly meeting him after dropping a gold ball into his pond), who magically transforms into a handsome prince.
Photography by Rich Gigli
DOWNSVILLE COVERED BRIDGE - Built in 1854 by Robert Murray. It is 174' long & it was added to the National Register on April 29, 1999. It is New York state's Longest Operating Covered Bridge. It is located in Downsville, NY, on Bridge Street.
Photography By Rich Gigli
MOTHER’S DAY – Two baby sparrows cuddled in their nest.
While mother bird gathers food without any rest.
Chirp,Chirp, Gulp,Gulp, beaks opened wide to fill their tiny inside.
Light down feathers ready to fly. Hoping someday to reach the sky.
Soon the nest will be silent and still. But mother bird had a wonderful thrill.
(Gigli 2010)
Photography by Rich Gigli
RUST IN REACE - Since you'll never be forgotten. We pledge to you today. A hallowed place within our hearts. Is where you'll always stay. Photo was taken along old Rt. 17, Roscoe N.Y.
Photography by Rich Gigli
- APPLE BLOSSOMS - Sweet darlings of the vernal air, Nestling your faces on the blue,The rosy goddess, Eos fair, With fond enchantment tinted you. - Augusta Larned, 1895. Photo taken Cooke Falls, N.Y.
Photography by Rich Gigli
The Old Farm House - In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate,with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A spring with its flower I break. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1865
Photography by Rich Gigli
PRAIRIE -The formation of the North American Prairies started with the upwelling of the Rocky Mountains. The mountains created a rain shadow that killed most of the trees. Most prairie soil was deposited during the last glacial advance that began about 110,000 years ago. The glaciers expanding southward scraped the soil, picking up material and leveling the terrain. As the glaciers retreated about 10,000 years ago, it deposited this material in the form of till. (From Wikipedia)
Photography by Rich Gigli
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886. - THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE - There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself; Finite Infinity.