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.... wenn die ersten Sonnenstrahlen zwischen den Baumwipfeln durchblinzeln, wird das Teublitzer Weihergebiet in ein zauberhaftes Licht getaucht .... der Schwan scheint es ebenfalls zu geniessen :)
Many people make jams and jellies from Muscadine grapes, and it grows in abundance in the woods, and I even have some growing wild in my back yard. However, I've yet to be lucky enough to find any vines that are producing fruit. It takes cross-pollination to produce grapes.
You usually see snails down at ground level, but this little guy was almost 6' up on this Jasmine vine, and heading skywards!!!
Every first week in September, the hummers arrive en masse. So far this year, there doesn't seem to be as many as usual, but we still have enough to warrant 3 feeders (so far). By this, I mean that you have to fill 3 feeders on a daily basis to keep them from going dry.
Some years, we've had to put out 6 or more feeders to keep the little suckers happy.
Sneak attack on Rio!
She tped me a few days ago to take a pic of my avatar (please go to her flickr and see it, LOOK HOW COOL SHE MADE ME ❤❤❤ ) and i secretly took a pic of her av! :>
It's nothing fancy but i hope you will like it! <3
This is the muddy bottom, the roots, of an over-turned tree along a trail that I walk. I've never seen anything like these dangling tubes anywhere before. My first thought was that they were Dirt Dauber nests, but I've never seen them look like this before.
It appears that the park custodians have marked this strange nest with spray paint.
Thanks to Steven Hromnak's search skills for the ID!
I'm not really sure what I was trying to do here, but there's something about it that I like. It was a partly cloudy day, with occasional spots of sunlight, which I enhanced in post. I tried to lighten it up with increase exposure, but it lost the mysterious quality.
The Mother of Thousands does not make seeds. Instead, it puts out babies that drop off and and take root wherever they land. This is the tip of one of the leaves.
The body-snatcher was discovered before it had completed it's transformation into a more acceptable form before Halloween night!!
Beware the plants!!!
All of these were taken from a yard-walk I took the other day. I've been so busy that the yard and beds have been totally neglected this year and, along with the drought, I'm amazed at anything that's still alive out there!!!!
On my walk along the RR tracks into the conservation area, there are many examples of natural patterns in nature.
Seen at a drainage canal in the heart of Baton Rouge. I need to return to this spot on a better day, when it is overcast. It was so sunny it made the post processing really difficult. It's always about the light, you know.
I drove down the road the other day to try for some sunrise pics...the sunrise was none too spectacular. Just before I left, I looked down and saw this bee that was still sleeping, so...out comes the macro lens...again...
btw...I paid dearly for that little morning jaunt, with chigger and bug bites that I'm still scratching right now...{=P
We're hosting a fish-fry later today and I have things I need to get done, so I'm posting and running...sorry.
Enjoy your weekend!!
We transplanted this from the surrounding woods a few years back, and it's really doing well. One of the bright spots in the yard every Spring.
Grabbed this shot yesterday of a bluff along the Comite River. You don't see many scenes like this along the Comite, as most of the terrain is very flat. This is downright mountainous in southern Louisiana... ;)
...and his red follower (grey Tervueren boy 3 years ... and red Laekenois boy 5 month .... both are Belgian shepherds)
Maj. Michelle Curran. Lead solo pilot distinguished by the upside-down "5" which identifies the only aircraft to perform the inverted maneuver in aerial demonstrations.
Lacking anything better to post, this is from back in February, when it wasn't so hot that you had to wear swimming trunks to go out...