frogs and flowers

I found this frog and its sibling on my bedroom window

screen a few nights ago.  I thought this surprisingly odd since

my room happens to be on the second level of the house.

Autumn creeping in with a bit of cooler weather.

This weeks bloomers....

This is my favorite plant in the flower bed.

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up close with nature

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last two weeks in nature

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mushroom fungus

The stormy days of Spring and Summer left behind plenty of
mushroom fungi. Here are some of the different types I encountered.

 Not sure if the one below is a weed, flower
or fungi but it sure looked cool at the time.

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This is about about half of what I have to share.

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thistle and dragonflys

these photos were taken a couple weekends ago

thistle

green dragonfly

golden dragonfly's

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tree critter and the suns rays

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 I call the tree below the Charlie Brown tree because

I've never seen it with leaves and I think it would look

cool with Christmas decorations.  The birds seem to

love perching in it.  A couple days ago I noticed a bird

that seem to look a bit odd so I grabbed the camera.

Why it wasn't a bird at all.  It was a chipmunk.

If you look closely you can see it is nibbling on 

some of the feed that I had put out on the ground.

It was very foggy this morning.  The corn field next door

and the field out back had extremely low visiblity.  When I

went out to fill the feeders I noticed the rising sun was trying

to filter through the fog and it appeared to be pushing the fog

through the openings...I thought it looked pretty cool.

Here's a slightly different view that shows how foggy

the back field was at the time the photos were taken.

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storms, storms and more storms

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Just wondering when storm season will slow

down a bit. We have more rain and storminess

in the forecast for today and tomorrow.

Stormy sunrise.

The last storm on Wednesday night left the worst

flooding I've seen so far this year in the front yard.

The GOOD from it all....

water droplets

beautiful flowers

The BAD...

The trees are loosing all their immature nuts.

I'm not talking about just onesies....

or a lot of onesies

or even twosies

but entire branches of nuts

This has me concerned about not just the wild animals in

my yard but everywhere these storms have been prevalent.

When fall comes and these animals are gathering

for the winter will there be much of anything left.

The UGLY...

I think this is a turkey vulture but I was not close enough

to confirm it.  It perched on the high electrical tower

overlooking the back fields searching for its prey. 

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