I love to take photos of places I go and things I see. Here is a collection of photos that I have selected to represent the month.
As if it wasn’t enough that we had a visiting peacock last month, this month we had a pair of armadillos that were wandering through the yard poking holes in the ground doing only what I can assume is their method of hunting. They were busy and did not seem the least bit perturbed that I stalked them all over the yard taking their picture. Here is one of them that managed to almost step on me.
You have to look closely, but there is a peacock strolling across my front yard. One day, I am sitting at my desk working and suddenly, there I look up and there is a peacock staring at me. He is about 4 feet from the window and by the time I grab the camera, he is moving across the yard. Not my peacock, but a random neighborhood peacock. I have heard him for months since I have been home, but this is the first time I have seen him. He wandered from my yard, hopped the fence and headed to the neighbor’s pond. Haven’t seen him since.
Boy, you can tell I am back home because no more photos of snow mountains, but there are a lot of pretty photos of flowers.
This is a new lily bud from one of my lilies in the garden. I didn’t plant this one; it’s just kinda been around for many years, but it still offers us these beautiful blooms every year.
It has been blooming off and on for the last couple of weeks, and it will continue to bloom all summer long. Now, to get my planted lilies to bloom!
I got back home just in time for the azaleas to start blooming, so I enjoyed the few bushes that I had while I waited on the rest of my flowers to start blooming. I forgot how colorful Florida really is, and I truly appreciate all the colors.
This osprey thinks that my antenna is the best place on the block to both watch the river for fish and eat them when he has them. He goes from our antenna to the neighbor’s antenna. Neither one of us use the antenna for anything other than a handy ladder to climb onto the roof.
Even from 100 miles away in Kansas, Pike’s Peak is still an impressive piece of landscape. We were headed home, and we stopped to take this photo as we left Colorado and entered into Kansas. From there we did a Dodge City stop before continuing our trek to the south; always staying one step ahead of the winter storms.
As my journey and adventures in Montana ended, the last hurrah was this baldy who was kind enough to pose for me as a good-bye present.
We left the day after Christmas in between two very cold and windy storms, and our trip home took us several days due to driving conditions.
I will forever hold Montana as the Treasure State, and I already miss it something fierce. But, Florida sun is nice in the middle of winter! Plus, it is good to be back home where ospreys and dozens of white pelicans have been here to greet me.
You never know what will come to the pond to drink, and with pheasant season in full swing, this guy was looking for a drink before being shot at again by someone. He was quite colorful and didn’t stay long, but it is good to know that he and his mate are living comfortably in the thicket by the cabin.
Good luck to you, Mr. Pheasant.
It’s fall. The sunrises are brilliant and the leaves are all disappearing. The grass still needs mowed, but the colors are richer now, and the air is cooler. I love the way the aspens are golden against the green grass. Add a little orange, red, yellow and blue and you have a perfect fall day.
We had another visitor on the pond this month. He has been around for awhile, but normally, he is stalking through the reeds or weeds, and I cannot get a good photo.
Today, he was stalking and then flying. I just managed to capture him on take-off.
Julie L. Cleveland 