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Kim Douillard is a fine photographer. I follow her blog, Thinking Through my Lens. Each week she posts a photo challenge. This week’s challenge is perfect for me, Nature’s Art. Kim lives on the West Coast in California. She takes pictures of the beach. By contrast, I live in South Louisiana. While our state is located on the Gulf Coast, there are no beaches, just marshland and canals.
Last week I posted pictures from a swamp tour on Lake Martin in St. Martin parish. I think my husband was a little jealous of our trip, so when Saturday was an absolute perfect day with temperatures in the 60’s and 70’s, he packed up the canoe, and we headed back to Lake Martin. This time I took my nice camera with the telephoto lens.
Wood duck couple
“Mrs. Simon,” Lynzee explained, “I am going to be busy in the mornings because rabbits are crepuscular.”
“What does crepuscular mean?” I asked her after praising her for her high level vocabulary.
She explained that she had learned the word from Wikipedia when she and her mom were researching about her new bunny. It means active at dawn and twilight.
I told this story to my husband, so when the alligators kept popping their menacing heads out of the water, he began calling them crepuscular muscular submarines. I admit it’s more frightening to see them in a canoe than in a big metal flatboat. My nerves were quite jumpy throughout our adventure.
Alligator hiding in duckweed.
Great white egret, Lake Martin
Grey heron, largest of the heron family
From vocabulary.com “The adjective crepuscular describes anything that’s related to twilight, like the crepuscular glow of the dimming light on a lake as darkness falls.”
crepuscular glow of the sunset
Reflections on the Teche 
Lovely images and story. I especially like the Grey Heron.
Just stunning…your words and photos make me want to pack a bag & go! (Reserve a flatboat for me–yikes!)
We should take along a notebook and have some writing time!
BTW, I noticed Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching and saw Molly Peacock wrote the foreword. She was a teacher of mine a long time ago when I was a grad student finishing a degree in writing/literature. I purchased the collection. Thx.
What a nice coincidence. This was published quite a while ago. I have a chapter. Thanks.
Oh I do envy you your time in the canoe and on your swamp, Margaret. Thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures. When I’m in a place like yours I always think I wouldn’t want to live with alligators, but we have mountain lions, & that’s a bit scary, too. I love seeing that gray heron pic, so majestic! And I love the story of your young student and ‘crepuscular’.
Thank you for these “crepuscular” images. I appreciate your adventure, but prefer the birds to the gators!
I haven’t been down your way since 1995. These photos are making me yearn to travel back down south. Maybe in a few more years once the kiddos are a little older.
Margaret, these are truly beautiful photographs. Wow…I see poems from each!
Wonderful photos and a new word, too. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with Tara…I see poems of beauty from your photos..the sunset shot was amazing! Also love the new word, “crepuscular” — I will have to share that with my kinder teachers who love interesting animal vocabulary they can teach their kiddos. Lovely post.
Your photos are stunning, Margaret! I really love the egret and heron. I admire your courage to get so up close & personal with alligators. Yikes!
These photos are just pure beauty, especially the egret and heron as Catherine just said. I was totally amazed by the alligator. Your photos are like pieces of still art. Crepuscular-what a great word. Leave it to Lynzee! If you say yes, these photos should be in a collage for the spring gallery. We don’t see photos like these in springtime Long Island.
You may use the photos, Carol. Thanks.