8/31/16

So I am posting more birds today.  Waterbirds too which seems fitting with all the rain we have received lately.  :-)  I saw this lovely Swan family on an outing to Tamarac Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota on a rather windy day in June.  The wind was making the lake very choppy but this family did not seem to mind it during their swim.

8/30/16

Well, we are cooling down for a few days again, nice.  Good chances for rain even though we are already pretty wet.  We'll see though.  Apparently I am in a green mood the last 2 days as my images are predominantly that color.  :-)  Today's image is from a walk I did around where I live on Friday afternoon.  The road construction has destroyed a lot of the natural area like wildflowers but there are still a few good spots left.  I found this lovely grass in one area and took a few shots.  This is called Green Foxtail Grass according to a website I found on native Kansas grasses.  I love the curve it has and how it is so wispy as well.  It does have the appearance of a bushy fox tail.  :-)

8/29/16

I had forgotten about this image I shot back in June when I was in Minnesota.  I was looking for something else the other day and found it.  Not sure how I forgot as it was one of the best ever shots I had taken of a Redwing Blackbird.  It was sitting and posing very nicely on some dried Cattails in a marsh area of a pond and I was able to get several shots of it.  I am heading back up to the area soon so thought it was appropriate to post today for that reason as well.

8/28/16

Well we are having a couple of more normal days for August, up around 90 today and yesterday go fairly warm as well.  Cooling off a bit again though tomorrow and the rest of the week.  My image goes back to a beautiful day in Southwestern Colorado and the Durango & Silverton Railway.  This is an image of the train above the Animas River on the famous Highline as it heads to Silverton.  It is moving very slowly at this time so you get a lovely view of the river below.

8/27/16

Posting a bit late today because I was off doing train stuff for the day.  The railroad has a pond that lots of dragonflies visit.  Today there was also this guy.  He was kind of cute sitting under a leaf after he came out of the water and very green.  

8/26/16

It's Friday!  It's been a long week.  It's rainy too.  Because of that I decided to share some happy Daisies.  These were growing alongside my pond this summer.  It had rained on this day too so the drops behind created some nice spots of bokeh effect.

8/25/16

So we started out very wet today with over an inch of rain.  Nice and cool too today which is odd for August but I'll take it.  My image is from earlier in the year when the Honey Bees were out an about collecting pollen.  I haven't seen them much so I hope they are finding flowers elsewhere.  This is a capture of 3 of them busily working on the Salvia.