Exploration in the yard

Pink lilies among the trunk of a Mimosa tree.

The other night I went out into my approximately 1 acre yard and made some discoveries. The flowers above.

Been seeing several blue buntings eating top tufts of grasses most people would call weedshttp://www.greglasley.net/bluebunting.html

The bird photo came from the link I added. My camera is cheap. The flower and the next photo is my own.

The prettiest toadstools I have ever laid eyes on: Red and yellow cluster..

Light purple Phlox growing in concrete slab behind and in our house corner. Amazing.

I keep hoping as far as the phlox goes that I would see one of these:

http://www.swagbuhumming bird mothscks.com/?t=i&p=3&b=0&f=0&q=humming+bird+moths

The link goes to a page of moth of this type images and you can find it and goes to the site since I could not get a link actually to the site for some odd reason.

In the desert area I lived in- in WA state, we saw these every summer evening in my big patch of pale pink phlox. I need to study and find if there are actually any here. Wonderful happy pretty little creatures like a humming bird crossed with a moth.About this Moth Wikipedia.

Always new things in the yard to see. Now go explore you yard , trail or park.

Chickens-changed to awesome photography.

Well I planned to do a chicken post and share photos of my chickens today, but for some reason the upload is not cooperating.  I noticed that I missed several chickens for pictures so I will get pictures of them and do this another day. What to do now with no photo's?

I decided to share some of may saved beautiful photo sites I have On SU :

 Flowers in photography      This site has 40  glorious flower shots and 1 sea shell ? I do not understand that one (the seashell) but they are awesome -even the shell one. a few pictures have nectar gatherers also in them (butterflies, bees)


Jaw dropping photos of nature. What amazing photography. I could be jealous of these if not self controlled. I do not really like this site, but was so in awe in wonder of these I did save this photo post on SU. Like vacationing from your home on the cheap seeing these.

Now from List Verse- a site I love and get a daily email from since I am a list person to the max. If I really like the daily list -like this one I will save it to SU to keep it.  Amazing Waterfalls. I can feel the spray as I read about these. (Also Again I enjoy this site ,but sometimes I have to ignore the advertisements,  You would  need to hide in a box to get away from it all.)

I hope you enjoy this impromptu nature walk with me. In the days to come I will share about my "birds" I am hoping the glitch with my photos does not last long.