A few cypress branches softly blurred in foreground - a stone foot bridge against green trees, reflecting

Stone foot bridge in green Summer - through softly blurred cypress branches #SpringGroveCemetery

Orange and black butterfly - wings spread - on pink zinnia

Orange and black butterfly on dark pink zinnia

Orange and black butterfly on pink zinnia

Monarch butterflies from September 2025 ...
#SpringGroveCemetery

White swan swims up to a turtle that is in a place it always basks - water is ripple

White swan lifts wings in a territorial move (busking) as turtle stretches head and next out

White swan closes gap with turtle, arches neck and peers directly at turtle who pulls head and neck in

White swan with wings partly up, head down and neck curved as turtle decides to go into pond

Turtle has a Spot & Sir Swan swims around in one of several little ponds. They must see each other often, but if Swan is in Spring Mean Mood ... well ...

This was not lengthy interaction, but Turtle was apparently having none of Sir Swan & left his Spot in a bit of a huff. 🐢 🪶 #SpringGroveCemetery

Butterfly with dark wings with light borders and one witg irregularly edged orange spotted wings - on scat

Mourning cloak and Eastern comma butterflies on scat (poop, feces, etc) - this is part of their adult diets

🌿 #Inverts #Butterflies
20 Mar 2026 #SpringGroveCemetery

Long branch with heavily shedding sheets of bitch bark

Heritage ® river birch branch by a pond #SpringGroveCemetery

3.20.26 beautiful day to sketch in the spring grove cementary, with geese for championship
#cincyurbansketchers #springgrovecemetery #Burnetmausoleum

Watercolor and ink in 6x8 sketchpad

A stone foot bridge andva shaggy river birch with trees in background

Stone foot bridge and river birch in mid-March ... #SpringGroveCemetery

Heavily lined and patterned cut cypress knee

Heavily lined and patterned cut cypress knee

Buckeye husk upside-down and starting to disintegrate

Ovoids ...

When bald cypress knees grow in grassy areas that are regularly cut with heavy-duty mowers, the remaining growth is fascinating.

The buckeye husk - much smaller - overwinters and acquires divots and cracks ...

Early March 2026 walk in #SpringGroveCemetery

A grassy peninsula with stone ledge and lots of turtles basking

Four turtles on stone ledge

Two turtles on stone ledge, with reflections

Elderly turtle who stays for photograph after the other turtles slide away

Turtles at #SpringGroveCemetery
3-10-2026

In water green with tree reflections, two white swans swim toward each other

Two white swans curve necks and narrow gap between them, still swimming

Finally two white swans draw close and barely touch, bills down - it looks like a heart shape

The Mute Swans had a graceful little dance with a slow approach and necks bent - they drew closer, still with curved necks ... finally ending in a heart shape from which they gracefully withdrew and passed by one another (2022) #SpringGroveCemetery

Cypress knees and trees reflected in pond

Sycamore branch curved, touching water - reflected

Late Spring- two large sycamore trees on pond edge reflecting in the water

Autumn orange trees reflected in pond

Reflecting trees #SpringGroveCemetery

Mute Swan in earnest pursuit of goose interlopers

Goose seeking respite from mad swan

The Mute Swan (neck bent & speed attained) notes that he treed one goose ... that was after another goose scrambled over a rock ledge (scattering the turtles) and the swan viciously bit a rock several times ... fun times in #SpringGroveCemetery - mating season & territorial disputes
April 2024 🌿 🪶

Collage of three photographs each one showing young and two showing female feeding young

Collage of seven photographs of female heavily streaked brown birds, some with yellow on throat and a touch of red on shoulders

Summer 2023 - I was able to photograph Red-winged Blackbird fledglings, as well as females!

I hope these fascinating birds return to the same place - #SpringGroveCemetery - so I can watch the females dance on the pond duckweed, catch insects and feed their young 🪶🌿

Tree branches delicate reflecting in pond under a grayish sky

Tree trunks and branches reflected in pond under a grayish sky

Delicate Winter branches and a brightness of sun behind clouds reflected in a pond

Late Winter afternoon cloudy day reflections in pond at #SpringGroveCemetery in Cincinnati (2023)

Bullfrog with head out of the water, looking straight at the observer - dappled light on a spatter of duckweed

Bullfrog of the day!
Thursday, 1 Jan 2026

#Bullfrogs
#Herps
#SpringGroveCemetery

Collage of seven photographs of the same 400+ year old white oak in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Elder white oak in #SpringGroveCemetery #Cincinnati

Bullfrogs of the day!*
Friday, 7 Nov 2025

*No bullfrogs were injured for this daily extravaganza - their images were digitally removed from photographs I took in ponds at #SpringGroveCemetery in Cincinnati 😃💚

Perfectly reflecting pond bank - trees and shrubs in green and Autumn colors

Autumn #SpringGroveCemetery

Sycamore tree with long, graceful branch stretching over and reflecting in the pond

Several years ago, Autumn in #SpringGroveCemetery

Orange and yellow blazing trees behind a stone foot bridge and pond with Autumn reflections

Close-up of stone foot bridge arch with Autumn trees and its own reflection

Line of Autumn trees and reflections

Burr oak acorn with big fringe

From Autumn 2012 - #SpringGroveCemetery
Cincinnati

Google maps vs reality. #wisconsindells #springgrovecemetery #psychic #cassandraseer

Spiny softshell turtle on a pond bank - a rare encounter!

I was so thrilled to see this delightful turtle somewhere I could stop my car and use my Olympus M.Zuiko 100-400mm lens out a window to take a photograph! #Herps

Eastern spiny softshell in #SpringGroveCemetery

Portion of stone foot bridge with water showing that is green with reflections of trees - dappled light

Stone foot bridge #SpringGroveCemetery Cincinnati

In Winter, stone foot bridge and trees

Part of stone foot bridge reflecting in water blue with sky and green trees

Stone foot bridge with a Heritage River birch bare in Winter

Stone foot bridge and the pond from a distance

This stone foot bridge is wonderful!

#SpringGroveCemetery

Red-tailed Hawk adult on cemetery stone monument

The Red-tailed Hawk I encountered in #SpringGroveCemetery 🪶

Shore trees reflecting in water with reflected clouds

A fine day for reflecting #SpringGroveCemetery

Red-tailed Hawk on a stone monument, looking down with neck bent

Red-tailed Hawk in dappled lighh on a cemetery monument

Red-tailed Hawk on a cemetery monument

Red-tailed Hawk on a warm October afternoon #SpringGroveCemetery 🌿🪶

Two young red foxes together by a den opening next to a road

Two young red foxes together by a den opening next to a road

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad

Two fox kits next to a den opening that is next to a road!

#SpringGroveCemetery
Cincinnati, Ohio

Collage with six photographs of large black, white and red Pileated Woodpeckers

In Dec 2018, I watched a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers forage for hackberries and do some acrobatics - I had to stand in a road to take any photographs! #SpringGroveCemetery 🌿 🪶

Monarch butterfly on dark pink zinnia

Monarch butterfly on small zinnia

Monarch butterfly on pink zinnia

More monarch butterflies ... #SpringGroveCemetery

Last day of Summer 2025.