The book Swamp Angels: A Family of Limpkins started with the photographs. I live in North Florida on a lake next to a huge woods. The lake is filled with weeds and wildlife: turtles, fish, alligators, frogs, snakes, mud puppies. Some times there are eagles, ospreys, anhingas, beavers, otters, deers, raccoons, turkeys, foxes, armadillos, wild hogs. For about 5 years I took many rolls of film with my first good camera, a Canon A 2e with a Canon telephoto lens. It took gorgeous photos. I am an inexperienced amateur, and often the light was dim, or I wiggled the camera, or the canoe rocked, or the critters came right at me and the telephoto would not focus. I did see wonderful things following wildlife around the lake but many photos were not sharp. Most of the pictures were taken with Fuji 600 film and look great on a well printed page. Very warm colors.
So my dear friend Carolyn Aidman was looking at the photos about the limpkin family, placed in chronological order. She said that it would make a good children's book. I said fine, but only if she would be my partner. Many years pass. Voila. We both have done some writing and editing but this was very hard in every way. We both have always loved nature, and I was a biology major for a while, but neither of us has a deep knowledge of science. We got great help from limpkin expert Dana Bryan PHD, who lives in my town of Tallahassee. He reviewed the manuscript for scientific accuracy and also added more interesting facts about limpkins.
It is a wonderful world.
William Martin
Best selling Taoist author, William Martin, has created a fictional community that will usher the reader into the magical ordinariness of living in harmony with the flow of life. Carson Beach, Oregon, is a coastal town where James Cooper, owner and head cook of The Happy Frog Cafe, creates food and community. Connie Delaney, Cooper's assistant and resident fey woman sees a world most people ignore. Connie's long-time life partner, Mary O'Hara, is Director of Animal Medicine at the Oregon Wildlife Refuge. A Japanese doctor, a Chinese artist, an Irish police detective, the proprietress of a unique bookstore, and an assortment of other characters of benevolent oddness, comprise a collection of extraordinary love and support. Into this world comes Carl DeWilde, a refugee from Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose 2000 mile cross-country escape deposits him in Carson Beach, wondering where in the world he was and what in the hell he was doing. Seeing a sign that proclaimed, "The Happy Frog Cafe - Welcome Weary Traveler," Carl thinks, "That's me," and walks up the path to enter a new world, a world that will transform his life.
William Martin's first work of fiction - Tales of the Happy Frog brings the reader an image of hope that the world may indeed have the hidden seeds of a transformation that will renew life on planet Earth.
Título : Tales of the Happy Frog
EAN : 9781310600128
Editorial : William Martin
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