Queen Anne's Lace

Tick Trefoil

Sulphur Butterfly

Butterflies Continued

American Lady

Black Swallowtail

Two Butterflies

Painted Lady

Monarch

Vervain & Bee

Swamp Milkweed & Friends

Michigan Lily

Currently found along roadsides in our area.

White Coneflower

Shown also are my pitiful attempts at utilizing Photoshop Elements.

SkyWatch

The mammatus clouds shown in last week's Skywatch post later looked like this:

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More Milkweeds

Milkweed Double Take

Loosestrife

Please meet Loosestrife---a shy wildflower who for some reason keeps herself perpetually gazing downward:

Thusly.....
.....and thusly, like a tiny lampshade.

Purple Meadow Rue

And, then, too......fraternizing with some unfocused white rue:

Singing Red-Wing

The bird book describes his song as a "squeaky KONG-KA-REE". Have a nice Sunday.

Mammatus Clouds

Not often do we see them, so I rushed outdoors to try and get a photo:
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Woundwort

A wildflower reportedly containing a substance which promotes the healing of wounds......

Spiderwort

Sunday Boredom

Sunday afternoon was incredibly boring, forcing me to flee outdoors to swipe a few scenes from an old, delapidated farm wagon:

Did you know the Sears catalog once sold wagon running gears? I didn't.

Yeah, right......old red paint......big deal. Proof positive that I was REALLY bored!

Here's hoping YOUR Sunday was more exciting than mine was.

Tiger Lily

First one of the season.