Angry Clouds

September Sky

Sunset Sail

Ring-billed Seagull

Fritillary on Wild Asters

Golden Sunset

Buck in Velvet

Monarch in a Pine Tree

Cooper's Hawk

Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Monarch Caterpillar & Butterfly

Sunflower

Rainbow in the Mist at Niagara Falls

I see you!

Bunny Prayers

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Egret

Great Egret guarding his broom along the Niagara River.

Honey Bees

Heavenly

Eastern Wood-Pewee

American Red Squirrel

She has a nest of little ones in the birdhouse.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Fritillary

Shoo Fly!

Don't bother me!

That's better!!!

The Healing Effects of Forests

"Forests – and other natural, green settings – can reduce stress, improve moods, reduce anger and aggressiveness and increase overall happiness." Click on the following link for an article from Science Daily titled "The Healing Effects of Forests."

Rainy Sunday Morning

Cleared up by evening in time to enjoy the full moon in Aquarius!

Ruby-throated Hummingbird getting his breakfast in the rain...

Sharing

A Monarch and a Painted Lady share the same coneflower blossom.

Painted Lady Butterfly

Red Admiral

A "Red Admiral" butterfly feasting in the echinacea this morning.

Storm Rolling in at Sunset

Tattered and Torn

With wings badly frayed, I wish this little skipper could tell us the story of how he got away...

American Goldfinch

Hello!

One of the new baby cottontails born this spring in our yard. You can tell it's only a few months old by the tiny smudge of white fur left on the top if its head.

Ducklings

Of the seven eggs laid on our boat slip, four ducklings made it. Here they are swimming with their mother (photo taken July 6th, two days after hatching)!

Proud Momma

Nesting in a flower box on our boat slip. The eggs hatched this morning! Happy 4th!

Goldfinch Quartet

and one up close with his reflection.

A very hot sky...

'Twas the Night Before Solstice

Clover

Patience

The Mallard duck in my flower box is incubating seven eggs. They should hatch around July 5th.

Clematis

Dragonfly

Red Squirrel

Busy Little Muskrat

Duck Eggs in My Flower Box

A mallard duck has decided that a wooden flower box attached to our boat slip is a good place for her eggs!

The nest is near a walkway so I will do my best to keep it from being disturbed.

Stay tuned...