Bees and Lavender

Marty CohenBees, Carmel Valley Ranch, Flowers5 Comments

(To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!) This is a follow up image to the one I posted June 19th. I went back the next day just to capture an interesting shot of the bees in flight. To me, this image says “It’s Spring,” even if today is the first day of summer. … Read More

Lavender Hillside

Marty CohenCarmel Valley Ranch, Flowers13 Comments

(To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!)   The lavender is in bloom at Carmel Valley Ranch. It lines the entry to the ranch, the roads and the hillsides. We look forward to this time of year here and are very lucky to live here. The Ranch harvests the lavender every year to … Read More

Wild Turkey Mom and Her Poults

Marty CohenBirds, Carmel Valley, Wild Turkeys14 Comments

(To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!) We have several families of Wild Turkeys living at Carmel Valley Ranch where we live. We see them often on the hillside behind our home. They’ve recently had babies, “Poults” and this family was behind the house the other day. Until the Poults can fly, they … Read More

Maasai Children

Marty CohenChildren, Kenya3 Comments

I’ve created a slideshow of the school children of Amboseli School in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. While on our wonderful trip to Kenya and Tanzania in July 2009, our guide took us to a school in a Maasai village. It was a single classroom with young, primary school age children. We were given permission to photograph them, which I was … Read More