Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

"Observation is the greatest source of wisdom."

"I've always been quiet, more of an observer."

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Saturday's Critters # 612

  Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!

 If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

A mish-mash I am finally posting photos from the end of July. Photos are from my back yard and of course I share some flashback photos.  I have various butterflies and an unknown moth. 

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1. I am seeing lots of butterflies at the coneflowers, the Buddleia and our Zinnias flowers. Below is the Fritillary Butterfly.

2. The Swallowtail butterflies are plentiful this summer. They are very pretty to watch visiting out buddleia bushes. 

3. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly is a pretty yellow with black tiger stripes with some red and blue spots 

4. The purple coneflowers are growing well this year.

A Swallowtail looking a little ragged but still beautiful.

There are two of the Swallowtail butterflies below.

5. An unknown moth on the butterfly bush.

6. Our Crepe Myrtle had some beautiful blooms, the insects love these flowers. 

7. Sept 2019, a flashback look at an Iceland bird, the Northern Fulmar. I saw some of these birds roosting on a cliff next to the Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, South Coast Iceland. 

The Northern Fulmar, a gull-like seabird. They are neat looking birds with their yellow beak with odd looking nose tubes. 

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall

Bonus, our son stopped by to do some work for us and he brought our grandsons for a visit. The boys enjoyed sitting on the deck feeding the Cardinal and watching the hummingbirds. Some time was spent eating snacks and watching a car race cartoon. 

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday   I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

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Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

Labor Day, a day to celebrate all American workers, a big thanks to all workers contributing to our country's prosperity.  

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity." MLK

"A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things."

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Saturday's Critters # 611

 Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Labor Day weekend!

 If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

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1. July 17th, Miney and I took our walk to the lake, seen in the collage Miney on the fire road and a little bit of the lake in the bottom two photos. 

2. July 20th, walking around my yard, I saw my first Monarch Butterfly of the summer and a Tiger Swallowtail on the butterfly bush.  The Peacock was strolling around our yard. 

July 20th, my morning walk with Miney on the local fire road.  Miney likes climbing on a tree that fell across the trail. 

3. July 21, our morning walk was to the lake.  We saw a pretty sky reflecting on the lake. 

4. July 21, my Merlin App has been picking up the same birds in the same area where I walk with Miney. The White-eyed Vireo is one of those birds, it likes to hang out in the same area. 

5. Miney stops and smells the flowers along the trail. 

6.  Flashback to my Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, one of my many favorite back yard birds.

It is not often I see more than one Hummingbird at the feeder, they do not like sharing.

 

I have captured at least two Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at my feeder. 

It is rare I see the adult with juveniles, I was lucky to capture this photo of 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at my feeder.  

Sometimes I can find the Hummingbirds resting in one of our trees or bushes near the feeders.

In September this juvenile Hummingbird was starting to show of his ruby jewel. 

The adult male Ruby-throated Hummingbird is lovely when showing off his ruby jewel. 

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday   I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

Check out  Catblogosphere.com

Here is my linky:

Thank you for sharing your critters and post! 

Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

 

 Two of my grand-dogs that crossed the rainbow bridge, Chewy and Nibbles. They are missed! Hubby and I watched our grand-dogs many times, they loved their walks on the fire roads.  

These are all the dogs, hubby and I have owned since we've been together 1989.

Sunshine and Daisy on camping trip to Shenandoah National Park. 

Sunshine and her son Maui, Daisy and her daughter Sierra running on the fire road.

Sunshine and Daisy at the reservoir.

Sunshine

Daisy in the mud.

Daisy with our son's pet Lop bunny Snowball.

Goldie Girl Sept 2014

Goldie Girl

Goldie Girl swimming in the reservoir. 

Goldie Girl sitting with hubby at George's Creek. 

I miss all my dogs, they were the best dogs ever and loved so much.

Check out more on the Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day at  Zee & Zoey's blog