I had to make an unscheduled trip to Minnesota recently. I saw numerous Sunflower fields in the area but most of them were all sad and done. I got lucky and found one field still in bloom. Some of the flower heads were the largest I had ever seen, like dinner plates. I was capturing this near sunset but it was rather cloudy at the time as well.
We have been getting rain somewhat regularly this summer. I have been riding my bike later in the day as well so I was able to capture this storm moving in around sunset recently.
A bit different image today. This is a view of the field in Minnesota with the Sandhill Cranes. Even this doesn't really do it justice as this is only about 1/3 to 1/4th of the flock that was there. It was so cool to be able to see and photograph them.
We have been incredibly hot this past week, at or near 100 F and humid too. UGH Remembering back a couple of weekends to my trip to Colorado in the lovely cooler dry air. I was treated to a lovely sunset on the second evening as well.
I was out on an evening bike ride this past week and was treated to a lovely sky. This is a view to the west over a large field for cattle.
In early June we were having pretty significant storms about once a week. This is the sky between a couple where we had about 5 inches of rain total. It was a crazy evening but made for a beautiful sky.
The Black-eyed Susans have had, what I would call, a super bloom this year. There are quite a bit of them everywhere brightening up the landscape. I took this panorama out by the Milford Lake spillway about a week ago or so.
I was in Minnesota last weekend for the first of my usual trips. I was out walking during the early evening and came upon this scene. There has been a recent addition to the Steam Thresher's grounds of this old granary (building to store and process grain). I thought it looked rather picturesque across the field.
As I have been mentioning, we have had quite a lot of rain lately. We went 3 months with basically nothing and now, we are getting it all. When we went to play trains a few weekends ago, we were running in between storms. These are some retreating clouds that I really liked how the setting sun was illuminating. The cloud just to the right of the windmill was especially cool with it's light outline.
We had quite the storm roll through our area on Monday into Tuesday. It had very high winds and lots of rain with it, we received right at 3 inches. It caused a lot of tree damage in town, we lucked out with only one major limb down from a Sycamore tree. Fortunately the old Oak didn't receive any more major damage than it had gotten in the last storm. This is what the sky looked like to the east in the aftermath, still some Mammatus clouds.
It's a double digit day! 😀 Today's image is an older one I had taken of a nice sunset with my drone. It is overlooking our huge high school complex.
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. 😂
It's not Wednesday but wanted to share this image. 😉😊 I have an area in the backyard where i have some Ox-eye Daisies that have kind of taken over. I enjoy it in the Spring as it is like a small field of them and quite lovely. I have tried to transplant some but I never seem to have much success. They like this spot by my small pond and a raised garden bed. I made the beginning comment because Ox-eyes are technically a wildflower. The image is a bit different in size because it is a phone photo and I changed the format it takes photos in to a more cinematic style.
Thursday night we had a very small storm cell moving into the area. As usual, we did not get much rain out of it but it did produce a quite lovely sunset sky.
Today's image is another from my bike ride through the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs Colorado. This rock formation is called Balanced Rock for pretty obvious reasons. 😁 It's a popular spot for people doing selfies and such but I got pretty lucky for a few seconds and was able to capture it quickly without anyone in the image.
Today's image is one that I took on my bike ride through the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs this past summer. It's a beautiful free park with lovely views such as this one. Biking through it was a great way to see it as the traffic can get a bit backed up at times and also taking photos was much easier to accomplish.
Today's image is one that I took in the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs Colorado this past summer. This is a rock formation called the Siamese Twins. The park has many interesting rock formations like these and is free to everyone to visit. I highly recommend it. On this trip I had brought my bike and rode that through it which was great fun and a great way to see the park.
We had a beautiful sunrise while I was on my way to work on Tuesday of this past week. The clouds had a neat texture to them as well which made it more interesting. I hadn't been seeing as many because it is getting lighter out these days but in a week or so we will be back in the dark due to Daylight Savings time change. 😒
Today's image is one from this past November that I took thinking I would use it for a calendar photo but I took a different one that I liked better. This is the Smoky Hill River that is one of the 3 that join and which my town is named for, Junction City. The other 2 are the Kansas and The Republican.
I was out for a walk recently and there was a spectacular sunset that was wonderful to watch it change and lasted longer than I thought it would. It began with lovely light hues of orange and yellow but ended up with these vibrant reds and oranges. I was lucky to be in a good spot for this color without a lot of houses around. I thought the clouds kind of gave this image a 3D effect.
