Late summer landscape The Stony Creek Evening peace. A tiny grasshopper What plant is this? Tunnel entrance of a Sphex pensylvanicus, Great Bl… Purple Loosestrife The tunnel Blue eye Red. Goat's Beard (Tragopogon), Aster family Thunderstorm mood at 7:00 p.m. Thunderstorm puddle The old sycamore. Wasps mating. Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis) White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata) The tiny country schoolhouse The tiny country schoolhouse The tiny country schoolhouse bell. "What did you say?" Digger Bee (Ptilothrix bombiformis) Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) Possibly Knotweed? The tallest Mullein Teasels Birdfoot trefoil Boneset Ants in a discussion Great Black Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) Chickoree Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes), fem… Belted Kingfisher This was 'our' female hummingbird.*** The eye! Watching Culvert's Root (Veronicastrum virginicum) Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus) Polyphemus adult moth. Polyphemus moth caterpillar. A garden for us. Tornado devestation Mountain bike trails at Stony Creek Metropark, MI.