I haven't posted a bird image in a bit and this is actually one I have had for quite a while and never shared. I re-discovered it one day while looking for something else. This is a beautiful Red Headed Woodpecker that had come to eat some Baltimore Oriole jelly I had put out.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! There have been a lot to choose from to take photos of these days. The Asters are in bloom. I believe this variety is called a Heath Aster. It is a volunteer in one of my gardens.
Today's image is actually a composite. I shot the image of my Bee Balm flower earlier this summer but found it somewhat uninteresting. Then, this is another bee in flight images I got that had a very boring background so I decided to put them together into a more all around interesting image, to me anyway. Another reason to not trust what you see on the internet these days. 😉
I am trying another Gaillardia plant this year. It's a bit different variety, the petals are an interesting shape which my photo shows off. It sure seems to like it's spot as it has grown and flowered a lot this year. I hope it over winters better than the ones I have had before that never came back the next year even though they are perrenial in this area. This is actually a 3 image focus stack.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog once again! Today we go back to Pennsylvania and the Strasburg Railroad. This is locomotive 475 as it passed by my with it's train at Paradise on it's way back to Strasburg. It's a short but fun ride that I reccomend if you are ever out that way.
Today's image is another sunset I was able to capture recently. This one I actually drove to a spot to take two Sundays ago now and did a bit of artsy angling to capture the grass silhouettes in front.
It's Friday, TGIF! It's also the first day of October, winter is just around the corner unfortunately, sigh. Fridays Are Bokehlicious as well and today's bokeh filled image is of a Twelve Spot Dragonfly at the Gazebo Pond. During the very hot weather we have had I have not seen them around much. Hoping that now that it's a bit cooler they will come around again more. I captured this one on a Pickerel Rush bloom. It has my favorite circular bubbly bokeh behind.
