Nature walk in the woods...

I decided to escape tonight after dinner. I grabbed the camera and tripod and took off for a walk out in the woods to see what I could find.

My girl Julie was out there...of course trying to get her to pose was impossible so what you see is what I got, lol...I spooked her and as soon as I took this photo she galloped straight back to the house, she's a wuss!

I was looking at the clouds and thought what is that? Duh me it's smoke from a fire. Not sure what type of fire. It's HOT, DRY and WINDY so not a good thing but it seems it was put out before too long as the smoke dissapated soon after I took the photo.

I found a butterfly tree, lol...I actually found a tree that was blooming and there were quiet a few butterflies fluttering around eating nector.

There were Cardinals all over the place.

I then looked up and saw the moon and thought hmmm wonder what that will look like, lol...

As I stood there watching the birds I also noticed some deer a little ways off...I honestly believed they would see me or hear my camera go off and scatter...but No they continued walking right around me. I was up-wind so they couldn't smell me, still not sure why they didn't see me or hear the camera...This doe looked right at me several times and just continued browsing. I was afraid to move too much and I didn't have the camera adjusted for the best exposure and I also had my 75-300mm telephoto lens on it too, ugh!! But I enjoyed watching the deer and laughing to myself at how stupid they were in not knowing I was standing right there...

On my return to the house I noticed this little hummingbird sitting in the Crepe Myrtle and I thought what the hay...Not a great photo but loved the colors...

That was my nature walk...I saw more than I thought I would and enjoyed the peace and quiet.