When I was up to Lake Superior last month, this bird was dashing around a marshy area as I drove past it but it stopped long enough for me to get a picture of it.
Bird Perching
Picture of the Day for July 10, 2020
After some rainy days, the daisies and other flowers seemed to enjoy the sun today. Daisies always suggest summer to me.
Summertime Daisies
Picture of the Day for July 9, 2020
The day was rather gray with different waves of storms rolling through and a little dark when the power went off.
Gray Clouds
Picture of the Day for July 8, 2020
A water slide would feel good today with the high heat index, and this natural slide is one of the series of falls and slides of the Siskiwit River. After this first slide, there are bigger ones down stream as the water drops and makes its way into Lake Superior.
Natural Water Slide
Picture of the Day for July 7, 2020
I had finished the mowing and a few other chores outside when I came in for supper this evening. The next thing I noticed was water dripping off the roof but the sun was shining. So I grabbed my camera as I figured there would be a rainbow and when I started out down to my pond, it was just light sprinkles. In a few minutes, those tiny drops turned into lots of big drops that pelted me and caused big splashes in the pond. Between scrambling to keep my camera dry under my shirt (which was soaked very quickly) and someone forgetting to change the exposure setting from the moon shots, not too many pictures turned out without raindrops on the lens. I was standing close to this same spot, but this rainbow was taken on a different day when there was only one raindrop on the camera lens and I didn’t get as soaked taking the picture.
Wet Rainbow
Picture of the Day for July 6, 2020
The milkweed is blooming and the flowers are drawing in different insects, like the snowberry clearwing, which looks like a hummingbird when they hover as it feeds on the nectar but it really is a moth.
Snowberry Clearwing
Picture of the Day for July 5, 2020
There were people out fishing today on this hot holiday Sunday, although it might have been cooler to be in the water than on the water. I don’t know how many fish these guys caught but the osprey has a large mouth bass in its claws.
Fish Caught
Picture of the Day for July 4, 2020
The ‘fireworks’ in my yard this evening were from fireflies, although some must have thought it was too hot for flying as they were perched on limbs as they flashed their lights to the croaking of the frogs in the pond. Many Independence Day activities were canceled this year, including firework displays but there were plenty of neighborhood fireworks going off, which had my cat hiding until the booms stopped.
Fireworks on the Fourth
Picture of the Day for July 3, 2020
With the start of the holiday weekend and being a hot summer day, water was drawing in people in for different activities. The mist from the waterfall would feel good (but does get the camera lens wet).
A Day By the Falls
Picture of the Day for July 2, 2020
The warm summer day at the pond had frogs floating on the water surface and dragonflies darting around. The twelve-spotted skimmer dragonfly has three brown spots on each wing and the males have white spots between the brown spots where the females don’t have the white spots.
Male Twelve-spotted Skimmer
