It's the last day of January and it's also Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is another of my favorites. This is Queen Anne's Lace. This bloom has the very distinctive dark spot that gives the flower it's name as it is supposedly a drop of blood spilled while Queen Anne was sewing a lace doily. I find it to be a very picturesque flower in it's various stages of growth. It usually blooms June through September.
This is another type of bird that has been visiting the bird feeder recently. This is a White Crowned Sparrow showing off his crown very well while sitting in the River Birch tree. It was getting ready to fly to the feeder in this capture.
Happy Monday and happy new week. We are supposed to be warmer this week, getting to 60 possibly. What a difference after all the snow and bitter cold. Today's image is a bloom on my Christmas Cactus that I took against the refrigerator for a background. I don't do anything special to my cactus and it reblooms on it's own.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! I am looking forward to warmer weather and being able to run steam locomotives again. This is our friend's locomotive as the boiler was being blown down to empty out the water and any scale that may have developed. It is an Ottaway locomotive that was built in Wichita, KS in 1948 and restored by our friends here at the C & H Railroad. This locomotive is what our blue locomotive would look like if it had not been converted to an 1800s looking type with the cab and smokestack and domes.
Today's image is another I captured of the wonderful fern frost that developed on the top of my heated birdbath. The temps were around zero and there must have been some warmer air coming off the water and it clung to the top edge of the bath and created these lovely formations. This image is a focus stack of 5 images.
It's Friday, TGIF! Today's image goes back to this past autumn. This is my Golden Raintree is autumn colors with some lovely bubbly bokeh behind it. Sharing today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!
I felt for a summery picture today, I am tired of winter. This is a Dragonfly that I captured on a Pickerel Rush leaf this past summer. Looking forward to sights like this again this summer.
