It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is another of my very favorite wildflowers, Queen Anne's Lace. It is named for the red spot that is usually found in the center. For some reason, my group of them did not have a very prominent spot this past year. It is in the Parsley family and usually blooms June to September. I find them very photogenic.
Today's image is of another bird I enjoy capturing. This is a Killdeer, named for the sound they make. They are fun to watch as they run along the ground and will sometimes play injured to draw you away from their nest. On this day it was just hanging out in some weeds near a stream on a day in March.
Happy Monday and happy new week! While I was looking at photos from Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania for yesterday's image I found I had a number of butterfly images from there that I never shared. This is one of them, a beautiful Common Banded Peacock Swallowtail Butterfly. These are found in eastern and southern parts of India.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog. Today's image goes back to last May and playing Live Steam trains at a friend's home. He had a get together and this locomotive is owned and operated by one of the people who were in town to play as well. It's a lovely black paint scheme of Southern Pacific locomotive 4449 which is also known as The Daylight. This is a G scale train.
I was at a meeting with a Kansas Extension Agent last week and saw this beautiful photograph in her office and was inspired. This is my version of that photo which is actually fairly close to how the tree was captured in the photo. This is a tree from Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania with a few treatments on it including an infrared one.
It's Friday, TGIF! Friday's Are Bokehlicious and I have a very lovely bubbly bokeh picture for today. This is an image of my neighbor's Lily in bloom from this past June as well as yesterday's image.
Thinking back to summer days and sightings of Dragonflies. This is a Common Whitetail Dragonfly I captured on a bike ride in late June. I like the wing patterns and shadow it made.
