Silent Verdurous Studies Fluid Hummers Asclepias Leafy Landscape Inhabitants

Juvenile Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Mystery Bug

Monarch Butterfly Egg

Middle Meadow 

South Garden

North Garden Tree Hydrangea

The Glint and Giving of Green

Wildflower Flowering 'In The Pink' Naturalizing Asclepias

Forms tightly woven

sweet filled cups spill into air

generous buds full

letting go unfurl

calyx corolla armor 

release opening

protective layers

disrobe revealing pendants

alluring fragrance

floating mist essence

embracing senses engage

claws and spurs spread out

explosive fireworks

pendulous orbs nurture life

pink porcelain stars fall

wild and native green

countless creatures jade delight

weed of milky sap

imagination

inhales expanding open

eyes to inner sphere 

essential cycle

return each season newly

egg to butterfly

idea to artful

nature feeds cultivates joy

a chrysalis forms

Visit Gail down yonder at Clay and Limestone for other wildflower studies. 

Fiery Orange Rising Reflecting Giving Life

Unusual July Sunrise Just As It Was

Middle Meadow Garden

American Painted Lady sipping Echinacea 

Healing Flames

Long Awaited FIRST SIGHTING MONARCH BUTTERFLY!!! July 14, 2011

Laying Eggs on Young Milkweed Along the Paths! 

Milkweed Bugs and Monarch Share Milkweed 

Sunset Glow

Viburnum at Dusk

Full Moon 

Sunrise Solitary Red-eyed Vireo 

Beloved by Birds Viburnum Berries Soon to Vanish

Second Day More Eggs to Lay.  First . . . Morning Milkweed Nectaring 

Red Clover Elixir Energy Boost For Laying 300 - 500 Eggs!

Every New Day a Fresh Daylily Face Unfurls

Fiery Days and Colors of July

Oh Joy for Monarchs!
rain rain never went away
early flights detoured


For now dry hot days
timing right for egg planting
Milkweed stands ready


A wild garden smiles
no mimic here true monarch
soars as no other


Tired and tattered
strength to fulfill destiny
select plants of choice


Promise of new life
mother fastening last egg
flies away to die


A Painted Lady
tiny darts of fiery heat
Echinacea sweet


Sun moon rise and set
daylilies open and close
life is a moment