Zooming – August 2024
/Bull frogs and turtles and dragonflies….the heat of summer. I didn’t travel as much in August as the earlier summer months….so this group is from close to home.
It was a mostly cloudy morning when I took a walk around our neighborhood last weekend. I noticed that the stonecrop near our front porch was ready to bloom and the seeds had formed on a redbud tree near the entrance path to the ponds.
The native plants that had been in pots several weeks ago when I walked around the neighborhood last have been planted around the shore of the largest pond and there was a stick near one of them with an Eastern Amberwing dragonfly sitting still long enough to be photographed.
A little further along two small red-eared slider turtles were soaking in the warmth of the morning.
I always enjoy photographing magnolia flowers. The season is far enough along for the tree to have some seed pods forming too.
Last time I walked around the neighborhood there was a bullfrog sitting in the shallows of the larger pond. This time, there was one in the shallows of the smaller one. Based on the coloring…it was not the same frog! Both times, the frog seemed very focused on the pond…paid no attention to me walking around to get another perspective.
The fungus on the old stump along my route back home, has changed significantly. There appear to be 5 or 6 different kinds!
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