Today's image is from the Frontiers In Flight Air Show at McConnell AFB in Wichita Kansas I was able to attend a couple of weekends ago. I really wanted to see this group, the Blue Angels fly. I had seen them years ago when I was a kid. They put on a really impressive show with their close flying acrobatics.
It's Friday, TGIF! Today's image is of one of my favorite wildflowers, Prickly Poppy but I am sharing it today because of the great bokeh. Friday's Are Bokehlicious here on the Blog!
I love seeing Ladybugs which are actually beetles and not really "bugs". They eat aphids which can be bad for plants so it is good to see them around taking care of things. I found this one on my Milkweed earlier this summer.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's image is an older one once again and a different one as it is not from my state. This is a Wildflower from Minnesota that I have been fortunate to see a few times while visiting there. It is their state flower and is rare so it is illegal to pick them or dig them up. It can take up to 16 years for them to produce their first bloom.
Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend an air show at McConnell Air Force Base down by Wichita, KS. I say lucky because the Sunday show was cancelled due to a bad storm in that area. It was hot but not horrible as there were some clouds that would keep it a bit cooler most of the time. One of the flying demonstrations we were able to see was Tora Tora Tora which recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. They use T6 Texans to recreate the planes as there no Japanese Zeros around any longer. It was quite the neat show.
I have a video HERE if you would like to see a bit of the performance.
Happy Monday and happy new week! I shared my white water Lily a while back. My pink one has been blooming recently and produced this very nice bloom.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! It's also Labor Day Weekend and time for the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion where I will, hopefully, getting to operate this locomotive. This is the 14 inch Wagner large scale locomotive that I took a photo of when I was there in June. It's sitting at our new loading area.
