It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Todays image goes back to my trip to the Cumbres & Toltec Railway. This is a very steamy image, fitting for today, of our locomotive moving by the historic Coaling Tower in the yard at Chama New Mexico. It was preparing to hook up to our train and take us to Antonito Colorado.
A little over a week ago I was on my way home and there was a storm moving into the area. It made for some beautiful light and clouds so I had to stop and get a photo. Fortunately, all we got out of it was some rain and not too much although it poured like crazy for a few minutes.
It's Friday, TGIF! My Cosmos has been blooming quite beautifully this year. I didn't plant any of it, they are all volunteers from seed from last years flowers. That makes this one quite interesting, I have never seen this variety before wit the white rays coming from the center. It's quite lovely. I also chose this photo for today due to the interesting bokeh because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!
It's a double digit day! 😃 I love seeing Dragonflies. They are very cool creatures to me with their huge eyes and the way they are able to fly and hover, so fascinating to watch. I captured this one at my Gazebo pond earlier this summer as it perched on a leaf.
I have a video Here of a cool event I witnessed this past week of a bunch of them flying around my small backyard pond. I had never seen so many around that pond at one time or ever.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is Canada Goldenrod. It is very similar to Tall Goldenrod but has much greener leaves. It is falsely accused of causing hay fever. It's pollen is not spread by the wind, insects do that. It usually blooms July to September and can be rather photogenic. It belongs to the Sunflower family.
Today's bird is the Kansas state bird, the Western Meadowlark. I had a lot of opportunities to see and photograph them the first half of this year. I like this photo because it shows them in a fairly common state, singing on the prairie. Often I hear them but don't see them. Our Meadowlarks seem to stick around for the most part, all year round and are identified by the yellow breast and black V band at the neck.
Happy Monday and happy new week! It's the September Equinox where we have almost equal day and night hours and we transition into Autumn. Every September Equinox, for the last few years I have been able to see a Monarch on the Goldenrod and this one was no different. It was actually on the 21st which Was the start. The actual Equinox is today at 1:20pm CST. I captured this at 4:47. Anyway, I was excited to see several Monarchs in my yard yesterday, one of which was laying eggs on one of the Milkweeds! Cool!
