Pam J's photos

Peggy has Carpenter Bees here . I dont have them in Oklahoma. They are beautiful chubby benign bumblies ! This was taken before the rains and offshore Hurricane Joaquin !

This was the sunrise from the aircraft... and then we hit the dense cloud of storm , and the very bumpy ride and had the 30yd visibility landing in Atlanta... The next flight onward to Raleigh had similar "bad air".

This was the sunrise from the aircraft... and then we hit the dense cloud of storm , and the very bumpy ride and had the 30yd visibility landing in Atlanta... The next flight onward to Raleigh had similar "bad air". EXPLORED !

This was the sunrise from the aircraft... and then we hit the dense cloud of storm , and the very bumpy ride and had the 30yd visibility landing in Atlanta... The next flight onward to Raleigh had similar "bad air".

This was the sunrise from the aircraft... and then we hit the dense cloud of storm , and the very bumpy ride and had the 30yd visibility landing in Atlanta... The next flight onward to Raleigh had similar "bad air".

A beautiful female in excellent condition. She fed for about 3 hours The two Skippers were a bonus for the photo ! EXPLORED !

A beautiful female in excellent condition. She fed for about 3 hours

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. - Nelson Rockefeller Forget you never...... My Mum..... She was only 50 when she died.... she is and ever will be in my heart The 22nd September would have been her birthday "Forget" for the Poetography Group FONTS : Times New Roman and Tekton Pro

This has been a remarkable season (after 2 bad years of low sightings of any butterflies) . Three new to "Snow's Light " butterflies and this one , a Gemmed Satyr came today. Much stalking and chasing ensued and 4 reasonable photos out of about 30 ! Where I live is about as far West as this beauty comes. This takes my butterfly count here to 43 species .

Yesterday really seemed to be the last of Summer.. a cooler time... and perhaps the last days of "plenty" Somehow a collage seemed more appropriate than one photo. Clockwise ...... Phaon Crescent Butterfly Pair of Cloudless Sulphur Butterflies on a Zinnia Western Kingbird Bumble Bee Halictid Sweat Bee Assasin Bug Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly EXPLORED !

Then he understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what he now knew.... "Endings" ....... or maybe beginnings ... for The Poetography Group FONT : Vivaldi The Dragonfly Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few disturbances and interruptions. Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad and would never be seen again. They knew when this happened; their friend was dead, gone forever. Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what he had found at the top. When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying. So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never known existed. Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended. But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew off into his joyous new life! ~Author Unknown~ EXPLORED !

Hand held and one shot. The light is from the Porch light. The hummingbirds are all but gone... the Butterflies are sparse.... It still hot in the daytime and barely cooling at night... but Autumn is coming

My resident birds are now down to about 9 in number from around 13. They are gearing up to travel South but for now they are still here and playing clowns ! EXPLORED !