Items by Steve Buser

• Rolling on the river into New Orleans

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 1
  
  One of my favorite things to do in New Orleans is to take the ferry ride across to the West Bank of the Mississippi River and then come right back -- you can do it in a car or as a pedestrian. For a buck you get [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:24am EST
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• Time Warp : Like mother, like daughter

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 4
  
  
  I saw this picture of our granddaughter, Sophie the other day.  The scene is a visit to our house -- she had all her friends huddled around.  Suddenly it struck me I had seen this before.  Or something pretty darn close.  So, I scoured my photo [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:42pm EST
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• Swinging carefree in the heart of St. Tammany

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  This is our granddaughter, Sophie, enjoying a swing at the trailhead park of the Tammany Trace hike and bike path from Slidell to Covington, LA.   THe trail is old rail line right of way that was abandoned back in the 1980's.   I was trying to capture' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:24pm EST
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• Bee and wasp -- fighting it out in pistil dual

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 4
  
  Our protagonist on the right, the bee.  Was enjoying his romp in the pollen on this afternoon where I just happened to be shooting a picture of this flower.   It was only seconds later that our antagonist, the wasp on the right, flitted into this pollen patch.  [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:52pm EST
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• Tri-colored Heron -- patience practice

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  A tri-colored heron, doing the patience thing at Lafrenniere Park in Jefferson Parish, which lies next to New Orleans.  This park was made from an old race-track, Jefferson Downs.  I went to a few Scout events there as a youngster.   I like the park a lot better. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:00pm EST
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• The hats have it.

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 4
  
  My nieces were having fun when I was shooting pictures of them one day.  To add to the picture, they ran out to Linda's car, and grabbed a couple of my hats and one of Linda (center).
  
  From the left are Paige, Sarah, and Rebekah.
  --steve' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:46pm EST
  by Steve Buser

• Street Car Sightseeing in New Orleans

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  This is our son, Shawn, and his wife, Sarah, on a visit to New Orleans last year.  A ride on the St. Charles Avenue street car is always part of the tour.
  --steve buser
  
  New Orleans, Street Car
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:50pm EST
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• The proper Mardi Gras is about having the accoutrement

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  Since we are on a Mardi Gras theme of sorts for today, I thought I would get a little on the technical side and go through some of the required paraphernalia for the perfect family celebration of the carnival.
  
  You will notice the float is passing [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:18pm EST
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• When angry sea storms billow and rage

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  The tropical storm Ida pounding into the Alabama and Mississippi Coast tonight, reminds me of a little more that a year ago when Gustav was bearing down and we decided to head to the Alabama coast to ride out the storm.   We learned that these systems [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:50pm EST
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• Style rules for catching Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

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  There is a certain style to catching Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans. 1) keep you eye on the catch. 2) extend your arms 3) close in on the target.  4) Let your excitement run away with you. 5) There is no [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:49pm EST
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• The Duck Book of Rules

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  You get a mouthful of tasty stuff from the bottom of the pond and then strain out the water -- you want this to be better tasting, not more filling, right?
  --steve buser [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:02pm EST
  by Steve Buser

• Squirrelly beggar tugs the heart strings

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  You know those beggars at the traffic light that bring their pets to tug on you emotions.  This little squirrel decided to strike out on his own and came right up to our table as we were eating outside a restaurant in Mandeville a while back. Hard [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
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• Nourishing nature's long-necks

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 1
  
  Little Sophie gets a close up view when my wife, Linda, shows her how to feed the giraffes at Global Wildlife Center -- a free range preserve in Folsom -- about an hour out of New Orleans. I thought for awhile that the smiles on the kids [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
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• Global Wildlife Center --head butting

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  Two young buckS tangle antlers trying to prove their "staghood."  We were at the Global Wildlife Center in Folsom, La -- a pleasant country drive north of New Orleans. 
  The animals would come right up to our wagon train for food, but I was surprised to [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:31pm EDT
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• Fill 'er up!

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 1
  
  Linda and I, went with her family to the Global Wildlife Center in Folsom, LA, his weekend (its about 45 miles north of New Orleans.  It consists of about 900 acres of free range for some wild animals including deer, buffalo, camels, giraffe and other exotics.  [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:24pm EDT
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• Sacked out

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 4
  
  Sitting on the Canal Street ferry wharf,  these two Brown Pelicans wait for the ferry to come and whip up fish from underneath the rolling Mississippi River.  Notice the pelican on the left.  He has leaned his head so far back and opened his beak so wide [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:15pm EDT
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• Get your parade face on

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 4
  
  I am proud of myself.   I suspect you are pround of me, too, even if you won't admit it.
  
  I will take your silence as a an acquiescence that what I say is true. (silence speaks louder that words).  But, just for the others, let me' [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 9:34pm EDT
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• Glossy Ibis

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 1
  
  This Gloss Ibis is a frequent wanderer around Lafreniere Park in Jefferson Parish (the neighboring parish to New Orleans)
  --steve buser
  
  
  
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
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• Reflecting the times

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  The Conservatory of Two Sister in City Park in New Orleans is the visual icon for the gardens.  This was shot there during the Celebration in the Oaks some time ago.  I just hope my schedule will allow time to make it again this year.
  --steve buser
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 7:38pm EDT
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• What a lily..

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 6
  
  This water lily was at the City of Gonzalez Jambalaya Park.   We went there today to take our grandchildren to the Splash Pad.  This lilly was in the fish pond in front of the splash area.  I applied a watercolor filter to the shot to give a [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 5:21pm EDT
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• Bitty Bee Bib Needed

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  Someone needs to invent a Bee bib.  If you going to stick your face down into a flower, you're going to get pollen all over the fine hairs on your back.  This bee at the Nature Center in Mandeville demonstrates the problem.  What we need is a' [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
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• Shake your claw, feller

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 1
  
  This fellow was at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans. I had a sneaking suspicion that he was holding out his claws to shake hands. Thanks, but no thanks.
  --steve buser
  

  Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, Louisiana

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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:24pm EDT
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• Garnish Grows near Gargoyle Guards

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  Built in 1871, the magnificient St. Stephen's Catholic Church on Napoleon Avenue in New Orleans is adorned near the top with these gargoyle guards. Originally gargoyles on churches were for water runoff spouts. I don't think these serve that purpose.
  
  Notice the green plan growing [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 8:12pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Aerial assaulters

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  I was getting read to delete this photo when I saw the sing. Manatee area? Mandeville? Times have surely changed. When I was a young man living in Mandeville, you could hardly get the courage up to swim in Lake Pontchartrain.
  To me this shows what [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:27pm EDT
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• Hurricane Katrina's collection

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 7
  
  This is what awaited us four years ago when we returned to the old neighborhood where we lived back in the early 80's. Of, course we didn't have to wait to get to this neighborhood to see this. Hurricane Katrina had left destruction in every single street [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 8:08pm EDT
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• Katrinaversary

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  Remembering Katrina -- four years ago. This was taken about three weeks after the storm in Slidell, Louisiana. The top of the house in the background did not start out there before the storm. It is from at least a half mile away.
  
  The scene is [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 10:44pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Summer floating

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 7
  
  Oh, those lazy, cloud floating days of summer. These clouds were just drifting aimlessly -- no lift in their spirit and just a listless wind to push them around. I guess to a cloud this is like floating on one of those pool rafts. No deadlines. no [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 5:43pm EDT
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• White lightning

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 10
  
  Hey, it's all fake, but fun. I was just playing around with Photoshop following some tutorials. The sky started out as a real cloud shot, but the white lightning is pure fantasy.
  --steve buser
  

  Lighting, photoshop, weather

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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
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• Rain high

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 6
  
  It's fun to watch the rain sweep across the city and the sky go dark during the day, from the relative safety of a high skyscraper towering over the Central Business District of New Orleans.
  --steve buser
  

  New Orleans, downtown, rain

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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 7:30pm EDT
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• Hope your day is a French Quarter Day

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  Another fun day in the French Quarter, nuff said.
  --steve buser
  

  French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
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• Cultural climb

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  At the corner of the Plaza D'Italia in the warehouse district of New Orleans, a shear wall and neatly restored bluish building serve as foothills for the Harrah's Hotel mountain a block away.
  --steve buser
  
  

  Plaza D'Italia, New Orleans, Louisiana

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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 8:20pm EDT
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• Starry plaza

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  From high above, this is the plaza on the Canal Street side of Harrah's Casino. That isn't a statue in the middle --it's someone walking slowly across. Notice the shadows are stretching out across Canal Street and toward the French Quarter as the evening tones down the' [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2009, 8:43pm EDT
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• Something new, something old, something lives on

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  One of the amazing things about downtown New Orleans is the juxtaposition of the new and old. I guess that is pretty common in most cities. But it really seems to fit here. Old buildings are hollowed out and refit with modern comforts, but they keep the [...]
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  Posted: July 19, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Come on, let me see you shake your tail feathers

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  If you're hanging around in the water all day, sometimes it feels good to just get out and giver your feathers a good body shake.
  --steve buser
  

  NewOrleans, Duck, feathersPowered by ScribeFire.

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  Posted: July 18, 2009, 9:51am EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Straighten them up so you can fly right.

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 5
  
  If you're going to fly, you better have wings. That means you better have your feathers on those wings all line up and pruned well.
  
  It may look like these Ibis at Lafreniere Park in Metairie, just outside of New Orleans, are picking for insects, but' [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 8:33pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Take a walk on the Park walk

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 0
  
  This was the group setting up for the start and finish line for a charity walk a year or so ago at Audubon Park. I love this little pavilion that looks out over a grove of ancient oak trees. Or, you can look out the back of [...]
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  Posted: July 12, 2009, 5:32pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Sharing dreams

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  This is what happens when you visit Papa and Nanny's house. They have a grown a little since I shot this picture, but the results are still the same -- a kid has a limited amount of energy (I know this is hard to believe but it [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2009, 10:39am EDT
  by Steve Buser

• I'm walking in New Orleans

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 1
  
  There's a more residential side to the French Quarter in New Orleans. It's not all just tourist shops, bars and restaurants. There are a significant number of houses, condos and apartments. It's a pretty exciting life -- you're able to catch a lot of festivals and fun' [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 7:09pm EDT
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• I don't like the looks of him

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 4
  
  Hey, I agree with you. Totally. You're right. I shouldn't even expect you to be here still.
  
  But, just hear me out okay? Please?
  
  I do agree with you.
  
  I agree that I have posted too many of these creatures lately. I know it [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 11:07pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Pirated space

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 5
  
  It is only a block long. But, if bricks could talk. Pirates Alley, in the middle of the French Quarter by St.Louis Cathedral. Pirate's Alley next to the Church? New Orleans.
  --steve buser
  

  Pirate's Alley, New Orleans, Louisiana, French Quarter

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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 8:55pm EDT
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• Concrete defense in City Park

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  There were a few ducks, geese and a Great White Heron wandering around when I shot this photo of the Hellenic pavillion at City Park. None seemed to present threats that would require a lion for protection.
  
  I suppose that the lion is this there to [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2009, 7:30pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Shadowing stranger -- Yellow-crowned Night Heron

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 2
  
  A young Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax violaceus) stops to check me out, as I wandered up on his dark shadowing nook of the lagoon in City Park, New Orleans. I think he was more after the shade than trying to find good eats.
  --steve buser
  
  

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  Posted: July 05, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Fishy followers

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 1
  
  Walking along the shore of a small pond at the hospital in Mandeville yesterday, I noticed a school of these small fish following me.  When I stopped they would line up along the shore a couple feet out.  
  
  When I moved -- sat down, or [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:44am EDT
  by Steve Buser

• That magic moment

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 4
  
  One morning at the lakefront, a blue heron soared by adding magic to the moment.
  --steve buser
  
  

  Lake Pontchartrain, Blue Heron, birds, New Orleans

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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:21pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Climber of clouds

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  Who knows what thoughts flee through the mind of a daring, maybe rash, climber of clouds?
  Who knows what heights his fantasies favor?
  
  Though you may once have known, you can never know again. Earth-bound one, you can only watch and wonder.
  --steve buser
  

  boys, [...]

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  Posted: June 30, 2009, 7:03pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Rebirth of a city

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 6
  
  In an historic city such as New Orleans, some buildings crumble and other survive the insults of time to be reborn in a new use. Evidence of that is show on this wall in the warehouse district -- it's former use as a electric motor, fans and [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 5:24pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Clouds clowning around

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  I think every once in a while God gets in the flow and forgets about the rest of creation for a few minutes. How else would you explain clouds at play in a sunset?
  --Steve Buser
  

  Clouds, sunset, New Orleans

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  Posted: June 26, 2009, 7:29pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Pray tell, what did you say?

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  I read on the Audubon Park twitter the other day that a Praying Mantis is the only insect with one ear. It made me think of this shot, but it took me a while to find it.
  I guess that means Praying Mantis teenagers are extra hard [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Finally, I get a break

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  Are the babies finally asleep? Thank goodness!
  
  This lady Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis ) peeks over the edge of the house done at her nest in the bushes. If they really are sleeping, she may get a rest from the duty of finding and transporting food back [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 6:54am EDT
  by Steve Buser

• Time to sail ashore

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  Number of comments: 3
  
  A fun day testing your skills against the wind, the water, the sun and the competition on Lake Pontchartrain. Now it is time to take a break and relive it all on shore in Mandeville, LA , with your buddies.
  --steve buser
  

  Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, [...]

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  Posted: June 20, 2009, 9:56pm EDT
  by Steve Buser