Today in the butterfly garden Zinnia bed for a tiny butterfly Thorny Ash-tree Button bush (Cephalanthus) Rumex Canadian Swallowtail Rosehips make an excellent jam I enjoy on buttered… This part of the nature center is always very quie… Horsemint (Monarda punctata) Horsemint (Monarda punctata) Flat-topped Aster Moody late summer colors. Remebering the horrors of 9/11. A precious child admiring the sky. I had the beach to myself. The migration is beginning. The lone visitor A young Great Blue Heron in our neighborhood A day for bees, perfect weather, perfect flowers Showy Goldenrod Stiff Goldenrod (Solidago rigida) Woodland Goldenrod (Solidago caesia) Fall colors on the pond Sharing the shoreline of the pond "Dorian" spinning out of control. Queen of the pond Sept. 6th and still blooming, Forget-me-not. Our sunflowers... A fragrant sea of Goldenrod. Under the high power line running through the natu… This redskin is a heart that tastes good. The earth is tilting away from the sun... Fun on a holiday Male Ruby Pondhawk Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, male. My stepdaughter and I at the local library playgro… My stepdaughter and I at the local library playgro… Holiday weekend weather Holiday weekend weather Erie Trader, a converted freighter, now a tug and… "Cuyahoga", an oldtimer freighter on St. Clair Riv… Barking at me from a quarter mile away out on St.… The last light of day. Even Goldenrods are lovely flowers. Great Spangled Fritillary