Belted Kingfisher ~ "The Best Of Times" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds collection — a body of

collection — a body of work that explores the grand waterbirds whose movement and stillness stop you in your tracks

The great grey owl is the collection's most hypnotic subject

and the whole day tilts toward good

body swaying with the reeds

letting the darks stay soft and deep so the red of the crest and the orange of the blooms carry the light

Belted Kingfisher ~ "The Best Of Times" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds collection — a body ofA Belted Kingfisher still at the river's edge is one of my favorite things to come upon that shaggy crest, the heavy bill, the way it sits utterly focused on the water before dropping like a stone after a fish. I have stood and watched one for the better part of a morning, and the time never felt wasted. Those are the best of times. This is a single bird portrait, the kingfisher given the whole stage. I wanted nothing competing with that profile, just