Tam Ryan

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Nature and Wildlife Photographer Published in Arizona Highways Magazine, Arizona Desert Views Magazine's Calendar and Nature Conservancy among other publications. Tam Ryan has lived in the Southwestern United States for over forty years. Her interests center on the region's unique attributes, especially its vast landscapes and bird wildlife. Tam Ryan's other interests include abstracts in nature, architecture, desert flora, and cacti.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Mosaic


"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~ Stanley Horowitz



Sunday, January 25, 2015

Happiness

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne




Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Shapes in the Snow

One of my favorite singers, Jodee James, is, also, a creative and imaginative writer.  She writes on her personal Facebook page about her experiences with nature around her home in the woods with the depth and soul of a Story Teller.  From time to time, I will share some of her posts with you along with one of my photos in this blog.


Too windy to walk in the woods with the trees so brittle, but I got to walk along the stream where the ice hung like glass earrings and bells, or like mismatched puzzle pieces half floating on the water. The woods are so noisy when it's cold and the sky this blue - the branches creaking and slowly moving, wrapping around the fringe of evergreen - I think I can hear the whole forest sounding up over the hill. The air seems that thin. It's definitely a two hat day.”
Jodee James (January 22, 2014)
Jodee James Music website HERE




Snow in the Desert

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls,
 the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Monday, January 5, 2015

Sunday, January 4, 2015

First Fall of Snow

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"   - J. B. Priestley  


PUBLISHED in Arizona Game and Fish Calendar 2024

My photo of two juvenile Black-necked Stilts was pubished in the 2024 Arizona Game and Fish Calendar. The image won an Honorable Mention an...