9/7/14

Last weekend I was up in Minnesota at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion.  The weather there was a lot cooler and wetter than I had been used to in Kansas.  It created a couple of very misty mornings.  I caught this image on last Sunday morning of the locomotive that I work a shift on, former Soo Line 353, taking on water in the mist.

9/6/14

Posting late today due to be out of town all day.  This is a lovely flower I grew three different colors of this summer.  This is the purple variety of a flower called Osteopermum.  They are daisy like in my opinion.

9/5/14

This is a macro image of a couple of red lilies growing in my garden.  The weather has turned colder so a sight we probably won't be seeing much longer.  I loved the color in this one.

9/4/14

This is a photo I got just recently of a Bumble Bee and a little Skipper sharing a meal on a bloom of Woolly Verbena.

9/3/14

I love photographing wildflowers.  This is a new one that I found outside a tiny town in Colorado called Como that I went to while looking fr something railroad related.  These were growing alongside the road into town and are called One Sided Penstemon.

9/2/14

Heading home from vacation today.  This is another of the Bristle-cone pines in Colorado on Mount Evans.  I processed this one with a more moody and dramatic feel and I think it brought out the tree trunk shape more.

9/1/14

Happy first day of September or Labor Day for those of us in the US!  Fall will be here soon.  In the meantime here's a typical summer shot of an insect and a flower.  This is a Clearwing Hummingbird Moth hovering around the Budhelia or Butterfly bush one day recently.  I was even able to get close enough to capture it with my macro lens.