the spell of the sensuous Photo Gallery by jypsee at pbase.com

the spell of the sensuous

Let's sit down here... on the open prairie, where we can't see a highway or a fence. Let's have no blankets to sit on, but feel the ground with our bodies, the earth, the yielding shrubs. Let's have the grass for a mattress... let us become like stones, plants, and trees. Let's be animals, think and feel like animals. Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Womiya wakan -- the holy air -- which renews all life with its breath. Woniya, woniya wakan -- spirit, life, breath, renewal -- it means all that.Womiya -- we sit together, don't touch, but something is there; we feel it between us, as a presence. A good way to start thinking about nature, talk about it. Rather, talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds as to our relatives.

--John Fire Lame Deer, Lakota


yellowlegs		katydid	two chicks plus 2
turkey vultures in bald cypress	ibis flock	great blue heron in sawgrass wetland	green heron in shadows
redwing blackbird	flatwood	queen takes flight	backlit coreopsis
bloodroot	lupine	sabatia	coreopsis
great egret hunting	tricolor heron fishing and limpkin eating	tricolor heron hunting in reeds	reddish egret hunting
preening brown pelican	preening scene	preening long billed curlew	gull preening
queen anne's lace against a dark sky	bald cypress branches	bald cypress branches reflected	sweet clover just before the storm
cattails in fog	web in dew	two deer at dusk	sulphur shelf mushroom
snow in May	fringed polygala orchid in leaf litter	pileated woodpecker was here	bird's foot violet
backyard osprey	gator submerged	flock of little blue herons	great blue heron wingspread
great blue heron chick in the nest	juvenile great blue heron in profile	juvenile great blue heron backlit	juvenile great blue heron strengthening its wing muscles
reddish egret in San Carlos Bay	reddish egret fishing	one raised wing	tricolor heron and reddish egret
great egret and chicks	burrowing owl chicks	great blue heron family	anhinga family
woodstork in cypress	brown anole	willets and white pelicans	resting at evening tide
scratching snowy egret	juvenile white ibis in bald cypress tree	'gator teeth	anhinga with a fish
tricolor heron fishing	tricolor heron fishing	tricolor heron fishing	tricolor heron with fish
black vulture	white tail deer	ribcage	red shouldered hawk at dusk
nesting pair of burrowing owls	white pelicans and a cormorant	bald eagle chick	bald eagles and chick
juvenile little blue heron hunting	osprey with fish	mangrove skipper in evening light	white ibis on one pink foot
yellow crowned night heron in twilight	woodstork feeding	sunset on the key	moon through the trees
doe. in tamarack	evening web	raft of migrating canada geese	male redwing blackbird mating call
female redwing blackbird preening on marsh grass	vireo nest at eye level	sunrise. through the trees	tricolor heron in pine top
still	preening interrupted. juvenile great horned owl	rabbit leap	badlands panorama
needles	great egret in flight over Venice Rookery	great egret against the evening sky	Ibis feeding in cypress
sunset. pine island	turtle. with reflection	wolf river rapids	pond. with spatterdock
juvenile raccoon	badlands	badlands vista	dwarf cypress. panorama
sawgrass prairie. panorama	egrets, herons, and ibises. feeding in sedge	dwarf cypress swamp. birds roosting	badlands. at dusk
wild horses. in badlands at dusk	spring birch	red mangrove swamp	leaf litter
alligator. ninemile pond	alligator. big cypress preserve	angus. with cattle egret aboard	brown anole
juvenile alligator. on a log	bighorn sheep	bison herd	bison bull