The garden always is a focus point for many creatures, the whole year long.
Remember, it's a jungle out there!
We're pretty much done with nesting season now and spend more time with butterflies and hummingbirds.
Hummingbirds have been frustrating to photograph; they always act like they're on steroids but they love to face me through the glass door and hover at eye level.
They just never do it when I have the camera in hand.
The other camera shy birds have been the gold finches feeding on the sunflowers and echinaceas and I haven't had the patience to feed the mosquitoes for hours while waiting for the right shot.
Another one of those fast moving, camera avoiding flying marvels have been the dragonflies. I have noticed a couple of them the last few days and decided to try my luck.
Well, the one I followed must have been a female: she had me running all over the garden always taking off as I got close. After a while, I quit and decided to go in. "She" started flying closer, tempting me and, when I started taking pictures, I swear "she" started posing.
Butterflies seem to have picked up a little bit from last year but not enough to bring us back to what we had just five years ago;
It's not all about insects, as some of you already know I have fox cubs playing soccer with my Asian pears after dark, a hive of honeybees and a number of frogs calling out in the sunset.
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| Finally getting the first figs. It seems to have taken much longer than normal. Still better than my favorite fig tree that froze to the ground and is now slowly regrowing for, hopefully, next year. |
