Harris’s Sparrow Bird in The High Desert of Oregon
Previous Next I want to introduce you to a new bird, for me as well! Meet the Harris’s Sparrow! Sometimes we have visitors show up here who are different! This pretty bird showed up with the White Crowed Sparrows, obviously not a white crowned sparrow! The White-Crowned Sparrow fledgling flew off and it just seamed […]
Verbena Flower Blooms
Previous Next Meet the Verbena Flower. Some folks may know them called other names? I need some color who knows you may as well? We grow our Verbena in a large flower pot in direct east sunlight. The flowers do well in this direct sunlight, the camera does tend to throw a fit in this […]
Frogs Frogs and More Frogs
Previous Next Meet the Pacific Tree Frog! When you have kids, sometimes we do not really understand how much our kids are paying attention to us. Here at the house we have several species of frogs here, the most common of these frogs is the above species. Pacific Tree Frogs are well adapted to many […]
Swallowtail Butterflies and The Lily Flowers
Previous Next The swallowtail Butterfly is a larger species of butterfly we have here on our small plot of land. This is about the Swallowtail Butterflies on the Lily Flowers, my first post in this series was “the Swallowtail on the Zinnia Flowers”. From my own observations the Zinnia Flowers are a much more popular […]
Swallowtail Butterflies and The Zinnia Flowers
Previous Next The swallowtail Butterfly is a larger species of butterfly we have here on our small plot of land. It is about that time to plant for some of us, some flowers have already bloomed or are growing. Seeding time for us here in the high desert of Oregon is getting near and I […]
Wildflowers of Oregon Shoot Star or Poet’s Shooting Star
Previous Next Never photographing these before. I was quite happy to find these high up in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon. We found a area of wildflowers blooming and stopping to photograph all the wildflowers in that spot, then thought we should head up to the higher elevation and did so on a narrow dirt […]
When The Visitors All Go Home
Previous Next When the visitors all go home, everything goes quiet. What once was full of people, is now empty. A quiet calmness takes over. This is the time of the year when trees start to change color. This is the time of the year when trees start to change color. When the visitors all […]
Woolly Bear Caterpillar
Previous Next We came across many of these caterpillars feeding on Nettle and some other plants. I believe it was stinging nettle, however the plant it was feeding on was not the subject I was photographing. These beautiful Caterpillars is what I was photographing. The Banded Woolly Bear Caterpillar is supposed to be the red/orange […]
Lunar Eclipse on Saturday, Dec. 10
Previous Next Nature is a wondrous thing. At times doing things that frankly, amazes us! The selenelion effect made these photographs come out rather neat looking, only with some cropping done. This selenelion effect is when both the eclipsed moon and the sun can be seen at the same time. Of course I get what […]