It's Friday, TGIF!!!! It's been a stressful week for me and I am glad it's over. Anyway, my image for today is another of the Praying Mantis that was visiting my Lantana this autumn. She was not happy I got her wet while I was watering it. Sharing this photo today due to the bit of bubbly bokeh in the background because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is Western Ironweed. It usually blooms, July through September and I took this image in mid August. Ironweed is very popular with butterflies and if you look, you can see there was a visitor on this plant. Ironweed is one of the most common pasture weeds in Kansas.
The Red Tail Hawks seem to be more prominent now in my area. They are always around but it seems that when the Turkey Vultures are here, you don't see them as often. Red Tails are fairly easy to identify in flight because of the bar on their wings.
Happy Monday and happy new week and welcome to the last month of the year! Wow, it's gone quick! As I type this, the forecast for today is snow showers. I am sure we won't have a picture taking snow, at least I hope not, I don't want any snow this week for various reasons. Anyway, this is from a snow we had last February where I was able to capture a few good flakes. This is a 10 image stack of at least 3 flakes stuck together.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image goes back once again to the Cumbres & Toltec Rwy and my ride in late June. I captured this image on one of the 14 times the train crosses the New Mexico and Colorado border.
Today's image is from a sunrise about a couple of weeks ago that was producing some very vibrant colors and changing quickly as I drove to work. I took this near the start of my drive and it was already starting to fade. Amazing how fast it changes.
