It's Friday, TGIF! I felt like an autumn type image today. Most of the leaves are now off the trees and I have been trying to clean a lot of them up. This is an image of some of my Amur Maple leaves in late afternoon light. I liked the bokeh behind created by other trees and leaves which included my favorite bubbly bokeh. Sharing this for today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!
The Autumn Sedum proved popular again this year and was visited by many butterflies, bees and other various insects. I captured this Honeybee enjoying it.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is Hairy Golden Aster which usually blooms July through September. I found this in mid September and it was about at the end. It spreads by rhizomes. It is not a true Aster as Asters never have yellow florets.
Today's image is of one of my favorite birds, and is also the Kansas State Bird, the Western Meadowlark. I was able to get an image of it fairly close for once. Usually they are a good distance away and on the move, they rarely seem to sit still and are very skittish. They over winter in my area but in some places migrate south.
Happy Monday and happy new week! Starting off the week with one of my favorite flowers, Black-eyed Susans. I have trouble getting these to grow but they have taken off at my Gazebo pond for some reason because the light is not what they typically like. As you can see in this photo, it's a very shady spot which made for a moody image.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog. Today's image goes back to this past year's Steam Thresher's Reunion in Rollag MN. The Roundhouse for the 14 inch scale Wagner had just been completed for the most part and I took this image of it sitting inside early one evening. The Roundhouse is now double in size and is most likely the largest Grand Scale Roundhouse in the country.
So this past week there was Aurora events or "Northern Lights". On the 11th I did not go out to look and am still disappointed in myself as that night was much better from the photos I have seen by others. From what I was reading it was not supposed to be visible in my area. I went out on the 12th and I did get lucky that they were still visible here. I took this with my phone on its astro setting and it caught it really well as it was not visible to the eye. So this is my take on it, though not as spectacular as it could have been the night before.
