It's Friday, TGIF! Today's image is one I was very happy to get. We have had a Bluebird visiting the yard this Spring and I was finally able to capture it. It has been fairly cooperative and sits in a tree for a while so that was great. Because it has some lovely subtle bubbly bokeh behind it, I am sharing it for today because Fridays Are Bokehlicious!
The bees have returned to my yard. I have seen some honeybees and also this bumblebee that I was able to capture. It was enjoying some Grape Hyacinths in one of my gardens last weekend.
Happy April! It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's image is one of my favorites that I am looking forward to seeing again this year. This is Missouri Evening Primrose which blooms May through July. This flower is very drought tolerant. It's flowers open in the evening and then usually close by mid-morning the next day unless if it's cloudy, they can remain open longer.
So once again I was able to see a Heron in the typical way, flying away from me. 😏 I was able to capture a decent image of it though so I am sharing it today. I captured this at the spillway from Milford Lake.
Happy Monday and happy new week! I felt like starting off the week with some sunny looking flowers. These are my Rudbeckias and they make me happy. They are coming up again so I hope to enjoy them again this summer.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is of Burlington Route locomotive 5629 at the Colorado Railroad Museum. This locomotive was built in 1940 in Burlington Iowa and is a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement which means it was built for speed. It began it's career running freight from Chicago to Denver and then between Lincoln Nebraska and Denver. In 1961 in was converted to oil and was stored in Lincoln where it's boiler was used for heat during a renovation of the Lincoln train station. On August 30, 1963 it was presented to the Colorado Railroad Museum by the CB&Q Vice President JJ Alms. The move was rather complicated due to the size of the locomotive and more can be read about it HERE if interested.
We have cooled down for a couple days but I felt like showing this photo today because it's my day. 😉 This image is different than my usual snowflake image as this one was taken by my phone! The quality of photos from a phone has really gotten pretty amazing in certain circumstances. This is just a single image and not focus stacked like my others.
