It was a busy butterfly day in my yard there were many Tiger Swallowtails, Black Swallowtails and one Monarch that would not cooperate and pose for me. I’ll try and get him one of these days. This is the underside it’s not as colorful as the top of the butterfly but I thought you would… More »
I was outside gardening and I had some butterfly friends that just ignored me and I was able to get some decent photos. I wish alll the butterflies were as cooperative with posing but sadly they have a 3 track mind EAT, MATE and FLY 😀
The other day I went out to take some photos of my new white Buddliea Bush or what is commonly called a Butterfly Bush. I was pleasantly surprised to see this Clearwing Hummingbird Moth having a feast on my flowers. I had my smaller camera and it’s not great with closeup shots but this was… More »
I’ve had this flower in a vase in my house for over a week and could not figure out why the middle of the flower was making a mess on my windowsill !!! Well that is until I found this little Looper on there. I didn’t see him but what I was seeing on the… More »
My Teasels are finally in bloom and this Bumblebee was really in love with it. It’s kind of hard to see the complete flower in this but the bee has lot’s on pollen on her so she’s happy : )
I love the Hover Flies but this Japanese plant is a horror !!!! Even though it looks very pretty it is so invasive I can’t even transplant any of the other plants that is in this one garden to another garden. Even one tiny piece of root will spread it in that area !!! It’s… More »
Love in the afternoon !!! I caught these two Bee/ Drone Flies whooping it up on the Queen Anne’s Lace. I wonder if they were embarrassed 😀
My Purple Coneflowers [Echinacea] are blooming and the Goldfinches are already pulling on the seeds. They don’t even wait for the seeds to mature, Silly Birds 😀 OH BTW the bird flew away when I went out to get a photo 😀
My Teasels are getting ready to bloom, these plants have sharp points so you have to be careful around them. In olden times the seed heads were used as combs for sheeps wool and plant fibers. They are very popular with the Bees here : )
So today is the first day of summer. I wish spring would have been better here but it was either too rainy or very hot. Well I have these tiny flowers all over my garden. They are nothing I planted I guess the animals planted them for me. I’m not sure what they are but… More »
This is an Allium flower which is in the onion family. One of my squirrels must have bit it off it’s stem so I thought it would look nice next to this large strawberry and in my antique ink bottle : )
My Lily of the Valley flowers just came in bloom and it decided to rain so I brought some in to enjoy. They smell wonderful : )
They say April Showers bring May Flowers, but if you ask me it’s more like May florals. Also, June, July, and August florals. Warm weather is the perfect time to bust out all your flower power dresses, tops, shoes, and the like. Here is a bouquet of floral fashion for you and yours. Get the… More »
I took this a few days ago when we had a warmer day and a little sun. There was this one Honey Bee really loving that Saffron in the crocus. She was so busy and had so many flowers to herself. It was a very weird April 1st here we started off the day with… More »
I just spent two days working in my gardens getting them cleaned up for this coming spring and summer. Friday I saw my first insect of the season a tiny little ant walking across my patio. And today I saw this Honey Bee collecting pollen in my crocus. While I was standing there taking this… More »
This is a scanned print of a flower macro that I took photos of many years ago with my Nikon SLR. I photoshopped a dry brush effect on it. My late next door neighbor had this plant that only bloomed once a year and after midnight. Her grandson came over to get me at 12am… More »
This is the same plant as the previous post. But this time it has artifical light plus natural light on it. As you can see this time the purple comes out in the flower. There is really no “True Blue” flowers that’s because most have a purple tint to the blue as seen here. If… More »
My indoor African Violet plants are blooming like crazy. This one has the most beautiful violet blue color : ) View in full size original and please check out my last new post : )
These were at one of the parks here on Long Island. They have a Tulip Festival every year but this was last year. Tulip time hasn’t happened here yet. Mine are growing well but not ready to flower, but I should have some daffodils tomorrow. View in full size ~
