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Tiger Lilies Have Appeared
Tiger lilies are one of our favorites, which is the case for a lot of other people too. They always seem to make for good photography. Some of our tiger lilies have opened up during the past few days....
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Butterfly in the Phlox
“A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought — But no, a butterfly.” ― Arakida Moritake, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (Click on any picture to open the gallery for a closer look!) I...
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Tracking the Bumble Bee
The bumblebees have hit the phlox pretty hard this summer. They crawl around the flower bunches usually spending a lot of time on the underside of the petals. This fellow stayed on the exterior for a...
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Red Admiral Butterfly
Another butterfly we spotted during our short trip to McCloud Nature Park was the Red Admiral. A couple of them sat on the purple coneflowers in front of the Nature Center. Unusual for butterflies at...
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Creepy Predator
Spiders are one of the most sinister creatures to see in a macro shot, especially from the underneath side – that is the side you would see while trapped underneath a monster spider in a B-movie from...
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Fleeting
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ―Heraclitus Once again, I chased the elusive Monarch butterfly until he finally decided to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Monochromatic – Gypsy
Our youngest and latest addition to the herd of pets – Gypsy, our dachshund! We retrieved her from an animal rescue hospital a few weeks ago. We do not know much about her history other than she...
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Washington Township Park Butterflies
Captured two butterflies during our walk through Washington Township Park (that trip in search of the Haunted Bridge and the U.S. 36 Bridge over White Lick Creek). In the first two pictures we have a...
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Northern Paper Wasp in the Yellow Rose Bush
I have seen paper wasps on the south side of the house for most of the Summer but I did not know their nest’s location. We finally found it while staining the deck a few weeks ago: behind the back of a...
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Soaring Silhouettes
I captured these images one early evening from our back yard. We saw these birds high in the sky. Even from a distance, they looked majestic soaring against the late-evening backdrop. (Click on any...
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Singing Through the Night
We ventured back to McCloud Nature Park for the second time this year. After walking around the prairie area north of the creek, we ended up getting lost in the maze. Each year, the park fashions a...
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Free-For-All on the Milkweeds
A few milkweed beetles and a plethora of late-stage milkweed beetle nymphs compete for seeds from a freshly opened milkweed. These bugs are common around here and feed on the seeds of several plants...
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The Early Bird…
Persistence pays off for this robin – he gets the worm! (Click on any image to open the gallery and get a bird’s-eye view!) Filed under: Nature, Photography Tagged: birds, black, early, early bird,...
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Wildlife on the Vandalia Trail
Cara, Ethan, Lain, Laci, Avery and I recently explored the Vandalia Trail between Amo and Coatesville, Indiana. This was our first time on the trail which runs on a long-abandoned railroad bed that...
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Tiger on the Prowl Again
The latest lily in the flower beds these days is the tiger lily. We have some on the south and the east sides of the house. Ours usually draw some nice beetles but, so far, the flowers have not had any...
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Pokeberry
We see a lot of pokeberry at the nature parks near here and elsewhere lining rural fence rows and along walking trails. The berries are edible if cooked and toxic otherwise. The stems of the plants,...
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Swallowtail Butterfly
I think this is a spicebush swallowtail butterfly. Or it might not be. In any case, the butterfly sat on this flower holding his own against a very brisk wind. He flapped his wings vigorously to stay...
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Downy Woodpecker
After several futile attempts I finally found some level of success in capturing a woodpecker with the camera. This downy woodpecker (or maybe a hairy woodpecker – they are quite similar and common to...
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Red Alert…
This is our favorite tulip in all the flower beds and one of the last to open up – deep red with a black center outlined in yellow. We have two of these tulips in the front under the crab apple tree....
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Big Bird…
I finally got a good look at the woodpecker that has done some major excavations on the old cherry tree. And this one is huge. This looks like a female Pileated Woodpecker and she is about 14 inches...
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