Deborah Kunzie, passionate lover of the natural world, captures the lives of Florida's wild birds like no other photographer. She has a keen knack for seizing a second of flight, a bit of reverie, or the art of daily avian activity. Expression and connection underlies each of her attempts to grab the moment before it is gone forever. When she is not sneaking around in the woods or wading through swamps Deborah devotes time to her website clientele in Clearwater, Florida. Laurie Wagner Buyer, a devotee of poetry in all its forms, enjoys finding the right words to compliment an image. Her haiku poems not only identify the photographed birds, they also illuminate the ordinary actions of waterfowl and raptors. When she is not on the road giving readings Laurie finds solace and plenty of writing time at Casita de Luz in Llano, Texas. When poetry and photography meet, something magic happens. Words give voice to images and pictures give substance to stories. These photographs by Deborah Kunzie joined with the haiku poems by Laurie Wagner Buyer give us a wondrous and memorable gift: beautiful seconds in time when Florida's birds come to life on a page in a book. Nothing is more compelling than art combined with art, unless it is art imitating life. Open this book and be prepared to be transported into a magical place.