Before a hurricane back in the 1950s and progressive global warming, locals describe a low island once popular for recreation that lay just beyond this Chesapeake Bay lagoon. The island is gone. Erosion wore it  down, with the tides spreading its disassembled existence inside the lagoon. I was shooting the wonderful abstract pattern of striations of sandbars that formed in the lagoon by an unusually low tide during a supermoon, when an American Bald Eagle - wings,  talons and tail fully outspread - landed, center stage, with infinite grace and beauty. Thus, THE EAGLE IS LANDING (below) came into being. See more wildlife photographs in THE LIVING WORLD portfolio.