It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is one I am very much looking forward to seeing again as I find it quite lovely. This is Sulphur Cinquefoil which is in the Rose family and usually blooms in May and June. I have some planted in my yard and I saw that it is coming back up while working over in the area this past weekend.
The Killdeers are back in the area. They seem to leave for a few months when it is really cold and then return fairly early. I captured this image of a pair of them a couple of weeks ago while on a bike ride.
Happy Monday and happy new week! Starting off the week with a lovely Cosmos flower that I can't wait to have growing again. A Bee Fly was enjoying this bloom as well.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the blog! Today's steam locomotive is Denver & Rio Grande Western #318. It is a C-18 locomotive with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement also known as a Consolidation. It was built by Baldwin in 1896 and it began it's life on the Florence & Cripple Creek Railway. The Rio Grande bought it in 1917 where it ran out of Salida, Durango and Montrose Colorado.
It's a double digit day today! 😁 My Amaryllis was very prolific this year and also rather photogenic. I decided to try a monochrome version of it and I was happy with how it turned out even though, for various reasons, it took me way longer to create this than it should have. LOL Anyway, I think the result was worthwhile.
It's Friday, TGIF! Today's image is one I was very happy to get. We have had a Bluebird visiting the yard this Spring and I was finally able to capture it. It has been fairly cooperative and sits in a tree for a while so that was great. Because it has some lovely subtle bubbly bokeh behind it, I am sharing it for today because Fridays Are Bokehlicious!
The bees have returned to my yard. I have seen some honeybees and also this bumblebee that I was able to capture. It was enjoying some Grape Hyacinths in one of my gardens last weekend.
