Birdfoot trefoil Teasels The tallest Mullein Possibly Knotweed? Never seen before, Centauria, pure white. 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 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. Stony Creek Metropark Intiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) Sandhill Cranes The new meter reader. Unusual visitors.