After a long absence!

I have decided to try and post on my blog while we are in Mexico.  It has been a few years since I have utilized it, but think I will try it.  I will be putting a link onto Facebook that will take you there.  I hope you will enjoy!

Droplets

I am fascinated by water droplets & trying to photograph them

When I went out for the paper today I noticed quite a few after the rain over night.

 I shot in manual settings so I would have a bit more control over them--

I had the telephoto lens on, should have used macro--will try that another time!

Macro Monday

All 3 of these taken in my yard earlier in August

Didn't see the fly om this black-eyed susan until I put it on the computer!

Macro photography is a favorite of mine!

Hummingbirds

We have a hummingbird feeder outside our kitchen window that has a lot of activity on a sunny day.

Once it stopped rainy this afternoon one bird showed up & has been around for awhile.

Just sitting on the shepherds hook & flying to the feeder every so often.

Not the clearest photos ( taken through the kitchen window)

I took quite a few pictures to get these with the red throat showing

I love having a zoom lens!

Monochrome Monday--Ooops!

I changed the setting on my camera to take B & W photos & forgot to change it back!

So, I took a bunch of photos in that mode!

I uploaded them & saw my mistake, but I like them this way!

From the Garden

 These are the 2 varieties of cherry tomatoes that I am growng in my garden--Matt's Wild Cherry and Sungold

Getting lots of chumps of them--so easy to just pop them in my mouth right after I pick them!  Yum!

Friends & Bison

For about a week I had been chatting with my friend, Carol about her coming over to see the bison--she is a painter and wants to take some photos & then create paintings.  So I arranged with my neighbor Theresa to take us on the farm to see them.

Theresa & Carol walking down to the field where the mommas & new babies are.

Carol taking photos

One of the mommas & babies--there are at least 10 babies so far

One of the expectant moms

a young one

And I couldn't pass up a photo of the Highland Cattle--the 2 females are expecting, too!