Good afternoon from the Front Porch. I was up at dawn, I really was. I heard but never saw the neighborhood Flycatcher singing his song this morning. AND, he was with company! I heard but never saw 2 Flycatchers!! Ya think one of em would pose for me and my camera? No. *heavy sigh* The Picture Mission continues. Hope is waning. Waning... sounds funny. I had no other visitors this morning. I went out again in the afternoon and we had a lot of visitors. The OFBS members were out in full force with proboscises at the ready. They zeroed in on me the instant I stepped outside. They weren't the only visitors, tho. There were many butterflies. I love butterflies. The ones that saw fit to sputter and flit thru the yard were impossible to photograph as they never chose to land on anything. But then, I was too busy trying to follow their flight path to remember I had a camera in my hands. Ya ever pay close attention to a butterfly when it flies? It's hard to do without getting a headache. Or nauseated. Do they actually know where they're going? Do they even have a destination? I mean, seriously, talk about spazzin'. I swear it takes them 10 feet of flight time to traverse 1 foot of actual space. I honestly believe one butterfly I watched traveled 10 miles without ever leaving our front yard. I was exhausted by the time he finally left for more flowery pastures. They look like how I feel in a grocery store when I can't make up my mind if I want something until 2 aisles later, forcing a backtrack outta me. I hate backtracking. Unless you are using it for deliberate strategic or defensive reasons, it's a TOTAL waste of time. Butterflies have perfected the backtrack maneuver. Come to think of it, they not only backtrack, they uptrack, overtrack, downtrack, undertrack, sidetrack, spiraltrack and any other track I can't think of at the moment. I'm gonna go with the notion that it's a deliberate defensive maneuver on their part. An oft times futile attempt to avoid becoming a fast food lunch for birds on the wing. The current, most wonderful dinner weather recipe is 76 degrees with 45% humidity, 7 mph winds with gusts up to 20 mph and light rain. A seriously light rain. Light enuf I had to go check the ground for moisture. I'm talking light. It's so light you probably could stand in it for 10 minutes before you felt a drop. This is a LIGHT rain. Onward...
See the purdy flower?!? I have no clue what they are. S planted the bulbs for them last autumn.
See what they became when they dried out?!? Purdy again, with some spray paint. S is talented!
Done. Finally. The report is done. This one took all day...
Not done! Must make a wish!! May the rest of your summer be wonderful and the autumn coming up be grand!! L L L L L L and D, my Treasured Fellow Travelers!! Toodles! Oh, and my apologies for the H bomb.
