8/31/15

I found this older image of a Hummingbird enjoying some Trumpet Vine flowers.  A friend of mine had been mentioning having this vine because they enjoyed it and I had forgotten I had a photo of it.  They blend in very well with the leaves for camouflage so it was difficult to make it stand out to see it.  Well, back in the heat again just as my green beans were starting to produce nicely.  Ah well.  It is still summer. 

8/30/15

It's a lovely cool misty morning today.  This image is from a day a lot like today back in June.  I was over at a friend's house running Garden Railway trains and caught this image of my C-21 locomotive on the high line putting out a lovely plume of steam.  

8/29/15

Bit of a dreary morning today but it's supposed to be beautiful before we head back into the heat of late summer,  This is from back in June on Memorial Day weekend as we were heading west to have dinner with some friends.  It seems it always rains at some point during that weekend and this was one of those fronts moving in with some rather dramatic clouds.

8/28/15

Well, we got some rain over night.  That was nice though now it's humid because it's warm.  Looks like next week is going to be more normal with temps in the 90s.  I knew it couldn't last, the cooler nice temps.  Ah well.  So today's image is one I played with obviously.  These were a couple of Straw Flowers, I believe, that I took the background out of and replaced with the blue.  I thought it made them look like natural fireworks.

8/27/15

Well, we are back to heat for a few days at least.  It was nice while the coolness lasted.  I shot today's image back in late Spring out on Konza Prairie.  This is one of the 2015 Emergence Cicadas that was hanging out in the grass.  I saw it on an evening hike and liked how the colors are really shown off.  Strange looking insects but kind of lovely in their own way.  They were quite noisy in the areas they were hanging out in.  This guy was kind of off by himself when I spotted it.  

8/26/15

A lovely morning once again but today got hotter and so probably not as cool in the morning tomorrow.  Ah well, it is August so I shouldn't be surprised.  We have had really hot here even into September before.  So today's image is of a very tolerant Leopard Frog in my pond who let me get very close with my macro lens and get several shots.  He even sits on his Lily Pad while I clean the pond around him and very close to his pad.  I don't have fish in the pond because I don't want the work that goes with them but I do enjoy the frogs.  We had a good rain on Saturday night and I was worried because sometimes the frogs disappear after that for some reason but there were still at least a couple were still around.

8/25/15

Well, August is sure going out nicely.  I like this 50s in the morning and then only 80s in the afternoons.  I could take a whole summer of this.  :-)   Anyway, today's image goes back to one of the Bi-plane Fly-ins that are now held in Junction City, Ks every year in June.  I took this image of this 1929 Waco Mohawk's engine because i was impressed with how pristine it looked.  Very shiny and clean even though the plane is flown.