
Just a little cool red, white, blue and green for a warm 4th of July.

Mr. Indigo Bunting was not happy with me. He had a nest in a bush just by the path into the woods. I just stayed put and he just flew around me, yelling at me to take my big lens and please go home. So I did.

This little sweetie is growing up on my fennel plant. His mom, the Black Swallowtail Butterfly laid her eggs on a leaf nearby the fennel. See those yellow horns on top? That is his Ostemerium, which is a defense mechanism. A little yellow internal organ pops out when the caterpillar feels threatened. (I had…

Alpacas, kestrels, warblers, dragonflies and good friends. Does not get much better. Had a wonderful weekend with Barb Schindler McGarry and Maryann Gorman at Barb’s house somewhere in the mountains of Pennsylvania.