4/12/22

 I captured my first butterfly of the year and it was quite the surprise.  On Sunday I was out looking for what was in bloom and observed this Tiger Swallowtail enjoying the newly blossoming Ornamental Pear tree.  I have never seen a large butterfly so early, usually my first is a Buckeye.  It was very neat to see and capture it as it flitted around the blooms.

12/10/20

 Today's image is one that I shot early this spring and never shared for some reason.  It's a sight I enjoy seeing in the spring, the bees back and enjoying the first flowers of spring on the trees.  This one is enjoying the blooms of an Ornamental Pear.  It will be awhile before we see this again in my area.

 

4/10/20

The Ornamental Pear trees in the area have been blooming like crazy lately.  I liked this image I got of the blooms because it showed off the buds as well.  Plus it had some lovely bokeh and Friday's Are bokehlicious!

5/22/19

We are up to 7.63 inches for the month now and more still possible.  Crazy.  This image seems like a long time ago. Pear tree blossoms in early spring.

4/19/19

Another thing that has been in bloom this spring are the Ornamental Pear trees.  The white blossoms from them combined with the pinks from the Redbuds really makes it lovely in our area of Kansas.  Plus the Crabapples are beginning to bloom as well so it is quite colorful right now.  I found on the new land that I have several Pear trees.  These are the blooms from one of them and I loved the bokeh that others created behind.

4/12/18

So it is Summer yesterday and today and then we are back to winter for the weekend.  There have been a few sights of Spring in-between of which this is one.  I have some Ornamental Pear trees on my land and they are actually blooming despite having temps last weekend of only 15 F degrees.  I captured a Honey Bee that was enjoying the blooms while it could in this crazy weather.

3/24/17

So I was able to get this image while the Ornamental Pears were blooming during our short Spring.  I liked the bokeh a lot in this image created by the other blossoms. 

3/17/17

Well, it's been Spring, then Summer, then Winter, then Summer.  What wacky weather.  I wish we would get some rain though, it's so dry.  I took this image last Friday during our short Spring of some Ornamental Pear tree blossoms.  This is actually a focus stack of 2 images to bring out details in the 2 main blossoms but yet still keep a nice soft background.

3/7/17

Well that was wacky weather yesterday.  Luckily nothing too serious here and not much rain either which we could have used after the wind we have been having.  My image today is from Autumn and of some Ornamental Pear tree leaves that seem to glow in the late afternoon sun at that time of year.

12/8/16

So it was pretty cold out this morning, only about 13 F or -10.5 C while I was going to work.  Winter has arrived.  We were spoiled with a lovely warm autumn.  These are some leaves that were still on my in-law's Ornamental Pear tree at Thanksgiving time because of that.  Caught them seeming to glow in the afternoon light.

12/1/16

December is here and ice formed on my pond this morning so feels more like the season now after the warm Autumn we have been having.  Because of how warm it has been, I was able to get this image at the in-law's home of their Ornamental Pear tree as it still had a lot of it's leaves that had yet to fall.  I liked those in the late afternoon sun, reminded me of little flames.