Today's image is another one from Garden of the Gods. This is the view you can get from the Visitor's Center just across the way from the main entrance. The "Kissing Camels" formation can be seen at the top of the right rock group. The weather was just perfect that day with lovely cloud formations and not too hot.
It's Friday, TGIF! It's also a double digit day. 😁 Today's image is actually from last fall but I had never shared it. I love the bokeh behind that gives it a kind of painted effect. This is a Painted Lady butterfly on Goldenrod.
I was out watering plants last week and was able to capture this little guy. He was sitting on a piece of plastic screening I was using to stop squirrels from digging in one of my pots. It looked like he was comfortably posing for me. 😄
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is one of my favorites and has been blooming like crazy around my area and especially in my gardens. This is Echinacea also known as Cone Flower or, here in Kansas, Black Sampson Echinacea. It usually blooms June through July. This Echinacea provides pain relieving compounds and Native Americans used it for toothaches, sore throats, wounds and burns. I find it very photogenic. Birds like to eat the dried seeds.
While I was in Chama New Mexico one evening I was able to get a few of the best Hummingbird photos I have been able to get in a long time. This Hummingbird came flying in and landed on a branch very close to where I was walking and allowed me to get several images of it.
Happy Monday and happy new week! Time is flying by. Sigh I was given a Stargazer Lily by a friend who has since passed and it makes me think of her when it blooms. There was only one bloom this year for some reason but it was a gorgeous one.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is one I took while on the Cumbres & Toltec train ride a couple weeks ago. This is the train from the Antonito Colorado side stopped at Osier Station where we had lunch. In about the middle of the train ride, you get to stop at Osier Station and have, what is now, a buffet lunch which is actually very good. There is some time then to walk around and take photographs which is nice.
I have a very short video HERE of the train getting ready to load passengers in Chama Yard. It's very steamy. 😁
