12/07/25

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  While I was in Colorado this summer I was able to see this beautiful model at the Colorado Railroad Museum.  This is a model of Union Pacific locomotive 844.  It is a very accurate model and was built by Herbert Votaw between 1958 and 1961 and required 1,848 hours of work and was the 3rd locomotive that he had built.  The model consists of 6,720 pieces which were all handmade and is 116 inches long and about 17 inches high and about 11 inches wide.  He had crawled all over the actual locomotive to collect information needed.  It was really amazing to see.

12/06/25

 We had a few lovely sunsets in November.  Today's image is one that I captured about mid month while I was heading home from a bike ride.  It was nice this year that I could ride my bike up until the last week of November.  My knees don't like walking as much.  😏

12/05/25

 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!

12/04/25

Late this summer I was treated to several opportunities to capture White Lined Sphinx Moths in action.  They really love the Surprise Lilies and I can usually find one visiting them.  This one, however, was enjoying the Petunias I had in a hanging basket early one evening.

12/03/25

 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.

12/02/25

 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. 

 

12/01/25

 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.