The Air & Space Annex at Dulles in Virginia is a really great place to visit if you are interested in flight. The Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the major attractions. The Enterprise used to be there but was switched out with Discovery which actually went into space. Enterprise is now at a museum in New York City. Here I got fairly up close and personal with Discovery. 😃
Happy Friday! TGIF! One evening last week I was able to capture a Hummingbird enjoying the flowers on my deck. A lot of my shots were of it's back but I was able to get this image of it from the side at my Lantana flowers. Because Friday's Are Bokehlicious, the lovely bokeh is created by the tree in the distance.
I captured this Silvery Checkerspot Butterfly enjoying my Cone Flowers one day this summer. This was before there were all kinds of small black caterpillars on them and my Sunflowers which ate all the leaves. The Cone Flowers are making a bit of a comeback fortunately. The Sunflowers died.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's image is one I just shot this past Sunday while bike riding out by Milford Lake. This is a Prickly Poppy. It looks a lot like my red variety, I wish I could figure out how to get them to grow in my yard. I maybe would regret it with the thorns but they are a lovely flower.
While I was in Pennsylvania and visiting Hershey Gardens, they had a very nice Butterfly House. The people working there were quite nice and when they saw me with a camera would point out things they thought might be of interest to me. One of those was this Atlas Moth which are not seen very often, even in a Butterfly House. It was quite cool and quite large. It was approximately 6 inches across, at least.
Today's image is from one of my new favorite flowers. I have always loved Gerbera Daisies but I can never get them to re-flower once they have flowered once. I bought this flower this spring and it claimed it was an always blooming Gerbera type. It has lived up to it's claim and constantly has at least 3 flowers blooming all the time. I have lost the actual name so not sure if it is an actual Gerbera. I love it though and will try to over winter it in case I can't find another. It is an annual. In a Google search of Gerbera Daisy the center of these is different than a regular one.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! In Paradise Pennsylvania, the Strasburg trains stop and the engine moves around the train to pull it back to the station, they pull backwards out of Strasburg. They have a nice little area to watch this occuring. Here I captured the Queen of Steam, Norfolk & Western 611 as it headed back to hook up to it's train just around the bend.
