2/28/22

 Happy Monday and last day of February and last day of Palindrome week!  For Valentine's Day I received a pot of lovely Tulips which have been blooming and making me really wish for spring.  I captured this one in front of the window.

2/27/22

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Today's image is another of the small Porter locomotive that I get to help fire on.  Porter's carry their water in a tank that goes over the boiler and the coal is carried in a small bunker on the back of the locomotive eliminating the need to pull a tender.  They were built by the H. K. Porter company and were mainly used as switchers or in coal mines or on sugar plantations due to the small amounts of fuel they can carry and their small size.  It's quite a fun locomotive to fire on.

2/26/22

 I was told by a friend that basically, this whole week, until the 28th in fact, has been a Palindrome week.  Kind of fun.  It will be a long time till that happens again I think.  Anyway, last weekend was the Cornell Labs Great Backyard Bird Count.  I had a good variety that day and even a couple of opportunities for some photos.  An example is one of the Nuthatches that came to visit and stopped just long enough for a photo.

2/25/22

 It's Friday, TGIF!  Friday's Are Bokehlicious as well!  Today's bokeh image with my favorite kind of bokeh, bubbly is my purple Columbine.  It was flowering in late summer which was a surprise as they usually only flower in spring in this area.  I am hoping it comes back again but I haven't had a lot of luck with that.

2/24/22

 I haven't shared a butterfly in a while.  I captured this Monarch enjoying a Zinnia in my garden this past summer.  If you are planning your garden, don't forget Zinnias which are very easy to grow from seed and are a butterfly magnet.

2/23/22

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  Today's flower is another vibrant colored one, Rose Verbena.  There is some of this growing out on a hill on Konza Prairie that blooms most of the year.  I captured this image of it at the old schoolhouse near me.

2/22/22

 It's a double digit day and a day filled with 2s!  😀  I don't often get lucky with my bird shots but one day recently I did.  I was working in my office and turned around to get something and saw this guy sitting in the tree outside my window.  This is a Red Shouldered Hawk.  There were actually 2 of them but the other was lower down and behind a lot of branches.  They both sat there for quite some time allowing me to get several shots.  I liked how fluffy the wind made it look in this one.