I published some pics last week of a backhoe digging up mud.  This morning I was looking at the mostly-exposed mud that got scraped around, after draining one of those catch ponds you see all over.  When the pond was full I would always see great blue herons wading around, and wouldn’t you know, as soon as two inches of water drained into this pond, one of these intrepid water birds was right back there up to his hocks in mud.  I suppose there are tasty morsels in there, but it was downright wrenching to see this beautiful bird hunting in such a ruined landscape.

So I exaggerated the quality and colors of my original high-def shot, to create a portrait of life in the midst of  disrupted nature.