Pic(k) of the Week: Spring comes to Beaver Pond

The trees were blooming on Beaver Pond.

Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 2 April 2025.

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As I was framing the shot, a bird photographer (aka 'birder') was standing nearby, wielding a 'bazooka-sized' lens. Unbeknownst to me, he had sidled very close.

"What did you spot?" he asked, catching me off guard. "A tree!" I replied. He smirked, saying, "There are many of those," and strolled off. Of course, that was the point.

Quam stulti isti mortales sunt. 

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Shirley Horn: A Lazy Afternoon

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• A Lazy Afternoon is a jazz standard composed by Jerome Moross (with lyrics by John Treville Latouche) for the 1954 Broadway musical The Golden Apple. It's perfomed, above, in a ravishingly beautiful rendition, by the Shirley Horn Trio, from the 1978 album, A Lazy Afternoon (StepleChase Records).
• Shirley Horn – pianist, vocalist, leader
• Buster Williams – bass
• Billy Hart – drums


• On 5 April 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (84th out of 500 selected).


• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays.
• Photo 15 of 52, for year 2025. See a larger, hi-res version on Flickr: here.
• Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.


• Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II
• Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R
• Settings: 82 mm; 1/125 sec; ISO 400; ƒ/4.8


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