Early Spring, sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots
Summer, sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots
Fish eye lens photograph of a sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots
Winter, sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots
A sycamore and cypress tree ... together #SpringGroveCemetery
Stone building side with various lichens finding niches
Lichens on an old mausoleum #SpringGroveCemetery
Eastern Phoebe classic nest of mud, leaves and moss mixed with grass, stems and even fur
Eastern Phoebe classic nest of mud, leaves and moss mixed with grass, stems and even fur
Eastern Phoebe nests - 2024 end of season & 2025 near beginning of season - tucked away on mausoleum ledges - the classic nests are built of mud, leaves and moss mixed with grass, stems and even fur #SpringGroveCemetery 🪶
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
