Flowers 'n toads

 

 

 

Hairy is blooming again

This has to be one of the most vivid-coloured flowers I will ever photograph!

 

 

ducklings galore

I think these are wood duck chicklets :) They came down the hill, across the yard, bulldozed thru my gerberas, trotted in, thru, and out of the tractor enclosure, and headed out to the lake thru Justin's corner of the forest. It was hard to get any pictures at all, they were moving so quickly. I got 7 of them close enough to shoot, but, the other half dozen or so ran helter-skelter!

 

 

 

On another front ~

Happy Birthday Chris !! Hope your day has been great !!!

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Happy Birthday, Stacie :)

Stacie & Tanya out for an afternoon cruise

 

Perfect specimen

The wedding peony

 

The other wedding peony; not quite as pink, but still very pretty

 

On another front ~ Happy Graduation, Tyler !!! (wow -- just the other day you were starting kindergarten!) & Congrats on your *Adversity* award! If his mom sends me a picture, I will post it!

Anatomy of a bud

Took these at various time intervals starting yesterday


This is the first potential bloom of a new bush planted only last summer by the rock wall.

 

A couple hours later ~

 

Only a short while later ~

 

Another few minutes while I took Barnie for a walk ~

 

Early next morning (today)
5:30 a.m.

 

An hour later, opening up, soon to be in full bloom

 

7:30 a.m.

 

Ain't Mother Nature grand!!

Another cutie

 

Didn't have the zoom lens, didn't even have a normal lens. Here's the macro version of a chipmunk 12 - 15 feet away!

Eastern kingbird, perched way up on the top of the highest tree available.

 

It remained on the treetop long enough for me to fetch the zoom lens.

Wedding peony

two years in the making ~

 

the sweetest little red spider inhabiting the anniversary present

 

 

Look at the little hairs on her legs