It's Friday, TGIF! We have been having rain lately which has been good as were incredibly dry. I took this image of raindrops hanging off Cedar trees on last Saturday morning. I loved the bokeh in this image and so I am sharing it for today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious.
One day recently, while on a bike ride, there was a friendly horse up near the road. It allowed me to get a few photos so I picked some nice green grass for it and fed, I think it was a her, as a thank you.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is one that I find quite photogenic. This is Musk Thistle which blooms May through August and is part of the Sunflower family. It is considered a noxious weed in many states because it can spread very rapidly and will form dense groups that keep other plants from growing. It is very easy to spread and can reproduce even after being cut down. I find the leaves very geometrically appealing. I should have used this image for Friday as the Bokeh is fantastic. 😁
Today's image is one that I took a while back of a bird I see fairly often all year. This is a Red Tail Hawk which are very common in my area of Kansas. They can be easily identified in flight by the short black band on the underside of the wing that you can see in the photo. When they are just sitting, they appear similar to a couple of other hawks, the Red Shoulder and the Sharp Shinned.
Happy Monday and happy new week! My water Lilies have started blooming and looking lovely in my small backyard pond. I captured these two together recently.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! I went to the Steam Up that a friend has on Memorial Day weekend again this year. It was a fun time as always and I got to see some neat Live Steam engines. I ran a couple of mine as well and this was my C-21 2-8-0 running in the evening on the ground loop that he has. The conditions were really good that day and the locomotive was putting out a quite nice plume of steam as it ran along the line.
I was out by Milford Lake the other day and was a passenger in the car so I was able to take this image as we were crossing the dam. We have actually been having a good amount of rain lately. The clouds over the lake and the sun in the one area was interesting to me and, hopefully, to you as well. 😂
