Holy Cow!

Buffalo cow, that is. Apparently these are the new neighbors down the road!! I fervently hope they're there to live and not there for sport hunting or as a food crop. They are absolutely HUGE. I think one of these is taller at the shoulder than I am tall.

Unknown Insect on Mountain Laurel

Moth on Bed

One More of Hamilton Attacking the Oak

Iris

Bee, Actual Bee, on Mountain Laurel

Polleny goodness.

Bee-Like, But Not a Bee, on Mountain Laurel

The H-I-double-L

Possessed !

The Cleaning Dance of the Fly

 

WORD!

American Coot!

I was rinsing my hair in the outdoor shower and turned around to be surprised by a large bird with a black head & a white beak just sitting in the cedar tree next to me, looking at me. I assumed it must be injured to have stayed there when I came outside, and also its left wing was funnily supported on a branch beside it; so I turned off the water & ran inside for a box in case it needed to go to Wildlife Rescue. Hugh came out with me and when he tried to photograph it, it flew from the tree to the ground a short distance away, and then it ran by the shed & down the hill. By this time I'd thrown on some clothes and I started after it, only to trip over a rock and fall down. So I got back in the shower and once done & fully dressed, went down the hill looking for it. I didn't find it. I hope that it wasn't really injured and was instead just pausing for a rest while passing by. I'm pretty positive it was a coot; not that many birds with white beaks that I could find, and besides, it seemed to have non-land-bird feet.This is not my photo, by the way, but it's a coot.

Fly on Mountain Laurel

Green Lacewing on Mountain Laurel

Sotol

Another Moth I Love

The Moths, I Am in Love with Them

Hamilton Attacks an Oak

Or, Hamilton the Insane

 

 

 

  

Tiny Red Bug on Mountain Laurel

They Grow Where They Will

Sometime Creek II

Evening Sky with Clouds

Sometime Creek

Daisies!

Five Giant Flower Stalks

Two of the stalks are on the other side of the plant; one is barely visible between the two blooms on the right side, and the other you can't see at all in this photo. But it's there!


Here is Hugh for scale.

My Tiny Dragon

This little guy hung out with me last Monday on the patio. I am charmed by its tiny size and diamond-shaped head atop its long neck. Strangely, another one of the little fellows was inside Hugh's car today, on the headliner just above his head. 

 It is perched upon my tiniest fingernail.