Perhaps it was the cooler weather making the bumblebee slower to move and more interested in the flower than in the camera that kept getting closer and closer. I almost touched the bumblebee with the lens on this last photo that I took of him.
What you cannot see is the hordes of mosquitoes.
Quote from Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916.
Photo from our east pasture, Aug 25, 2009.
Still trying to make a simple point and shoot camera take photos that I like. This took quite a few tries but worked out well in the end.
Fleur-Ange, our dog Calla, and I went for a walk this morning and were met by a group of friendly bikers. No one offered us a ride however.
Seed dispersal of the Geranium looks like fun and brings SPRING to mind.
This poisonous Amanita frostiana, Frost's Amanita, grows in our east field every year. It grows right along the path that I mow for walking the dog so we always get a chance to see it at this time of year.
View from the kitchen door . . . . What you cannot see is the 10 000 mosquitoes in the air and the two deer hidden in the shrubs.
No? OK, Treefrog on a house thinking about its next move. (I missed the photo of it hanging onto the outside of the second story window.)
It's Latin name is Hyla versicolor and yes it can be green or gray.
This Witch Hazel (Hamamélis de Virginie) is blooming way too early. It should start around the end of September or early October. Last year I found it in bloom on August 29 and was amazed. This year I found it on August 14.
That being said, I have also found it blooming way too late in past years. Several years ago, while walking on a windy, -20 degree, snowy day in February, I found a witch hazel blooming with the petals vibrating in the winds of winter.
Cup Plants and Thin-leaved Coneflowers in one of our wild flower gardens. There are other coneflowers and a variety of less showy plants also there but unseen in this photo. The moose antler was found on the Churchill River in Labrador and the cow skull was found in a pasture in Kansas.
The goat's 2nd pasture has been taken over by Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot). Since the goats tend to ignore the plant, I used a weed whip to cut it down so that the grass underneath had a better chance to grow with less competition.
I thought I had missed the Buttonbush blooms this year as I thought it bloomed in the spring. Wrong. It blooms in August and I found it blooming at the arboretum in the Royal Botanical Gardens last Friday.
I really like the various geometric shapes found in and on bridges and then there is the rope for swinging from the bank into the river under the bridge. Looks like fun.
I heard that kids used to, back in the days when safety was not pushed down our throats, used to play tag on top of the bridge beams. These days children don't even have climbers in the gyms. I wonder how safe fat is.
Sometimes water reflections are more interesting than other times. This is the reflection of the highway 11 Fauquier bridge crossing the Groundhog River in northern Ontario.
During our days in the Moonbeam/Fauquier/Smooth Rock Falls area I saw both bear tracks and one running bear. (It was going the other way.) I saw the bear tracks on one of my early morning walks before most others were awake. I was just as happy to NOT see the bear that morning.
