I have been working with photographer Kevin Watson on Hawk Mountain, a coffee-table book to commemorate the sanctuary's 75th anniversary, and I have been heading over there fairly regularly.
   In the process, I have become addicted to the sanctuary's native plant garden, which is in its prime time each summer.
  It is abounding with frogs, turtles, dragonflies and damselflies, butterflies, beautiful flowers and -- though tough to photograph -- tranquility.

   More on Hawk Mountain here.

   More on the book and 2009 Hawk Mountain calendar here.