Ironweed

Belle dams la lumiere et les ombres. ,! Bonne journée pam

Merci Thérèse !

So beautiful dear Pam,eddie,xxx

Thankyou Eddie !

... Don't know this Ironweed ... but I find it very beautiful !
I can see some bees in the garden ... because someone has some hives not far away from here. But something is definitely wrong this year with the birds. Usually I don't see them a lot as soon as the beautiful days are coming back. This year they are asking some food all the time ! ... and I am sure that it is because they don't find enough food around by themselves. That heat is killing vegetation ... and insects, of course (:o(((((.
Have a nice day, Pam.

Thankyou Christiane !

Here we have over 100F... that is normal this time of year.... I feed the birds to they are here and the squirrels. But no butterflies or bees is very worrying.

Wonderful floral picture.

Thankyou Jaap !

Here also we have less bees than normal. They say, it's because of industrial agriculture. Too much mono-culture ... bees find not enough to eat. Seems, we are going to kill our own world, day by day....

Thankyou Heidi ..
I live very rurally. I an surrounded by 10,000 acres of wildlife managed land. Almost no agriculture so no pesticides really. This makes it even more worrying as it means the problems are much much wider spread.

Very beautiful work !!!....Our wildlife seem to be doing ok here in my neck of the woods ...have a good week !!

Thankyou Marj !

Beautiful. Love the processing. There is a dearth of butterflies here too. Bees are around but look rather small and not so many hoverflies. We're having a good summer too so conditions are favourable.

Thankyou Jean !

Superb !!! Looks like a painting, Pam ************************************

Thankyou Marie-Claire !

Wow Pam - this is exquisite!!

Thankyou Paul !

Strange really, No butterflies or bees LAST YEAR, these past couple of weeks had plenty of all varieties, most likely due to two Buddleia trees in heavy flower, also noticed many of the winter garden visitor birds have also remained with the feeders being quiet busy.

Thankyou maurice...

The birds have been ok... but the native flowers arent doing as well as normal. Nothing is really this year.

Beautifully taken and presented, Pam. I'm not sure what is most disturbing, your note on the lack of bees and butterflies, or the many subsequent echoes of that in later comments from around the ipernity world.

Thankyou George.

It should the state of things wide spread !

Very beautiful flowers and colors. Also very beautiful treatment of the image. Hopefully some of my newly planted plants will flower, so maybe I can comment on bees later in the summer. Lots of birds at the feeder, though, and lots of squirrels.

Thankyou R !

Its concerning here.

Beauty .... period !
Have given the bees your GPS info -
Also the butterflies -- mostly Skippers, but know you would enjoy them -
Have had no Dragonflies ..
micritter ( down the road) has had them all ;)

Thankyou SAB !

Hugsssssssssssssssssssssss

Very nice processing. I wonder where all of the critters went?

Thankyou Esther....

Its worrying

Nice photo. Here in Mississippi (at least at my wild place) there is lots of this ironweed / Vernonia.

Thankyou Ronald !

You have a damper climate down there.

Yes, usually (including this year) there is a lot of rain all year.

That's really lovely, Pam!!

Thankyou Eunice !

A wonderful composition with very nice colours !

Thankyou john !

Beautiful...

Thankyou Tatranka !

Super floral image here. Brilliant creative processing. Well done Regards Tess.

Thankyou Tess !

Nice processing. Seems like our butterflies and bees are a little scarce around here, too, but we have had a lot of bird babies...maybe they are eating more than just seeds.

Thankyou Dick !

ADMIRABLE…..

Merci Danielle !

Talents abound ..

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Thankyou SAB !

excellent work!

Thankyou Claus-Peter !

Fascinating flowers in spectacular light! A wonderful piece of art!

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I have similar flowers in my garden, but I've never heard of Ironweed. This is a fantastic photo

Thankyou Jenny !

Très jolie présentation !

Merci Josiane !

Lovely, charming flowers, beautifully taken and presented! The soft morning light is so beautiful too.

Thankyou Miss Sasi !

Ironweed is a new one on me, or maybe it is something else I have forgotten.
I would like to relieve you of some of that heat. A couple of days ago I thought about putting the central heating on, but opted for another two layers of clothing instead.

Thankyou Neil !

It was even too hot to mow tonight before dusk.

oh my gawd girl! this is stunning! I drooled!

Thankyou Wendi !

**offers a tissue** !

...my prefered colors...beautiful...

Thankyou Erika !

Pam your artwork is so beautiful, so pleasing to the eye. Let's hope that the bees and butterflies are not experiencing the beginning of something traumatic for them. Do take care ... have been thinking of Flicka. :)

Thankyou Chris !

HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Gorgeous, Pam. What beautiful work.

Thankyou Ron !

Very pretty creation!

Thankyou Cheryl !

An interesting plant, beautiful colour.

Thankyou Adrian !

GORGEOUS!! I love the light and shadow on the flowers, it's such a lovely shade of purple. Great work texturing and processing, Pam.

Sorry to hear about the terrible year for insects, I hope 2018 was much better. :)

THANKYOU JANET.

ITS ACTUALLY NOT PROCESSING BUT ARTWORK

Such a strange name for such a beautiful flower Pam. I must admit I haven't heard of it before. A lovely image. Have a good weekend

THANKYOU CAROL

Magical little flowers

THANKYOU REYK

Beautiful...