Your backyard: Grass, trees, and beautiful moving things
By Gary Bogue
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 7:13 am in Birds, Cats, hummingbirds, Insects, Robins, Squirrels.
cat and squirrel by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Hello Gary:
Two years ago I became permanently disabled due to Multiple Sclerosis caused fatigue. Since then I have become the home cook and I get to spend time in my backyard making friends and photographing them. Most people look at a backyard and see grass and trees, I see all the moving things in them.
John Campolo, Pleasanton
Hi John:
And such wonderful, moving things they are! Turn the page, dear readers, and enjoy a yardfull of John’s beautiful moving things … /Gary
Fox squirrel by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Robin by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Hummingbird by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Hummingbird by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Preying mantis by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Male house finch by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Scrub jay by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
White-crowned sparrow by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
Warbler by John Campolo, Pleasanton, CA
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December 11th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
John, Always admired your photography and glad to see you make the news! Many people Im sure are not aware of the beauty in each day, that you have a real eye for capturing. What a gift you have for capturing nature at it’s best!
December 29th, 2009 at 11:04 am
John,
the pictures you’ve posted on Gary’s blog are wonderful. You seem to have found a positive outlook, no pun intended, to handling what is certainly a major life challenge which brought on, no doubt, an unsought transition. I read something in today’s paper that you might appreciate, it’s from Carolyn Hax’s “Tell me about it” column; On simple ways to change one’s perspective – she writes “I find that for me the simplest way to turn around a situation where “I have to” is simply to change the task or situation to “I get to.” Thanks for sharing the beauty you see in your back yard!
Yours sincerely, Valerie Curcuro
March 29th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
WOW – John really knows what he’s doing with a camera. Beautiful photos of all of nature’s children.
Thanks for sharing!
Tracy
March 29th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
…or rather, just SOME of nature’s children!