Moving slightly in the breeze, a sea of yellow waved in the sunny late summer day.
Summer Yellow
Picture of the Day for August 9, 2018
Although the temperature is above average today and too hot for me, the summer is slipping away and another sign that winter’s return is approaching. besides the maple leaves turning, is that a summertime voice is absent again. The very loud song from the tiny house wren has been missing this week and there is no sign on the little brown bird anymore. It is one of the last birds to arrive in the spring and now has abandoned its summer home already and headed south for the winter.
Wren Missing
Picture of the Day for August 8, 2018
The nodding trillium had a three petal blossom hanging under the leaves in the spring and now there is a red seed pod. The pod must have looked like a mini apple to the deer since there was two trillium seed pods a week ago, but one plant has been eaten off.
Nodding Trillium Seed Pod
Picture of the Day for August 7, 2018
The sky today kept changing from brief sunshine to rumbling thunder including some rain drop so I delayed hanging laundry on the clothes line and skipped mowing.
Changing Clouds
Picture of the Day for August 6, 2018
Some times on a hot summer day, it is too warm to do much other than to relax and watch the world go by.
Resting Kitty
Picture of the Day for August 5, 2018
With chances of rain the next several days, some sunsets might be hidden or have darker rain clouds on the horizon instead of a clearer sky.
Dark Cloud Sunset
Picture of the Day for August 4, 2018
Some of the corn silk are still soft and creamy color in the corn less mature, while other corn has silks which are turning brown already. The silks often look similar to my hairdo in the morning and I guess they follow some human hairs. Soft and light at birth, darkening with age and then turning brittle and falling out.
Corn Silks
Picture of the Day for August 3, 2018
I saw some maple trees changing colors the last week of July. That doesn’t seem like a good sign and maybe the trees know winter will be a long one. Or maybe since the summer has been hotter than normal, the trees have calculated enough heating degrees that it should be autumn already.
Autumn Colors Coming Early
Picture of the Day for August 2, 2018
Normally the flashes of blue flying through my yard is from the Eastern Bluebirds, but some years the less common blue from the Indigo Buntings grace the feeders.
Indigo Buntings
Picture of the Day for August 1, 2018
I rolled up old barb wire in the past years, but none of mine look nice as a yard decoration.
Roundup of Wire
