Your photos always cheer me up!
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The Florida Azalea which is a native rhododendron as well. A butterfly of some sort resting and blending into a leaf. Some Oak Hoppers.
Was going to hang out another few hours but I’ve not eaten since 11am yesterday and I’m starving. Going to get some vegetarian “tofu” sweet yellow curry.
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From the back porch after an ugly, overcast day:
The sun is shining up from the horizon onto the bottom of the clouds and turning the trees behind me all golden.
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Those are lovely photos, @RichardG . Thank you for sharing them!
Michiganders love lakes. They make us happy.
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I don’t know Michigan, having never crossed “the Pond”, but it is the contrast between the lakes and the surrounding hills that makes it so spectacular. I am guessing that Lake Michigan is probably bigger than all of the Cumbrian lakes put together.
Richard
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Your lakes and hills are beautiful. We have very few hills in Michigan. Our lakes are contrasted with beautiful forests, and the big lakes have beautiful, large beaches. It’s a different style of beauty.
I hope you get to see them sometime.
And I hope to see your Lake District as well.
Kendel
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Please allow me an indulgence. While in the Lake District we went to the local Zoo where they had a live flying display. This is the Harris Hawk coming into land
I had to crop the picture to make it fill the screen but apart from that it is untouched.
Richard
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Thousands of years ago Oregon had numerous lakes that are no longer here due to our heavy rainfall (like just last week we had six inches in one day): lakes overflow, which cuts the exit channel deeper each time, until there’s just the river flowing through.
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You couldn’t resize it? I use that feature a lot because I hate losing anything in photos!
Thanks!
I read this interesting article in the BBC recently, about how redwoods are “thriving in the UK”! @RichardG , have you seen some? Apparently, well-to-do Victorians brought them over.
Thanks.
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It was on the left side of the frame with only blurred background to the right of it. I was lucky to get what I did. You should see the failures.(deleted of course)
Richard
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You are very talented!
I only know the twice stabbed beetle. Not sure what the caterpillars are.
This is the live oak tussock caterpillar. Cool and pretty. Painful to hold with your hands.
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We’re still waiting for spring here in New England, so all I’ve got is the center of a fading paperwhite from the living room.
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Awesome–thank you! I was not able to see this while at work (I knew there would be good photos, and this is wonderful)–that’s great! The light looked odd out our window, though
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Hiking yesterday I came across a pine tree with a bunch of fuzzy caterpillars and noticed that every one of them was on a tip of a twig that had been cut off (to keep the trail clear). I should have pulled out my phone and gotten a picture.
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