A spattering of photos...

Sunday morning we had gone over to Mom and Dad's ranch. After breakfast and doing a few things I sat on the porch debating on whether or not to get my camera out of the truck. We were suppose to go help Fred's brother, Franky, and I wasn't sure how long we were staying. I finally decided I owed all my blog readers some photos, it was long over due...

Peaches

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I'd been staring at this butterfly all morning. He sat on the tomato plants not moving and then when I started taking photos he finally started moving his wings. I thought it was a snout-nosed butterfly but it wasn't and I haven't been able to identify it.

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Later in the afternoon/evening I went down to the pool by myself taking my camera. I took a few photos at first but it was too hot so I decided to vacuum the pool.

Grasshopper with red-highlights. The grasshoppers are horrible down there. I wish I could move the chickens down there, they'd have a feast and I'd get rid of some pesky insects.
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As I was vacuuming I felt cold drops, ekk...It seems an afternoon heat shower had popped up right over the top of me. I was done vacuuming and hanging on to the vacuum pole wasn't a good idea. It wasn't lightning but I didn't want to become a human lightning rod either so I jumped in the truck to wait until it passed...I was bored sitting there so I grabbed the camera and took photos of the rain on the windshield...
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The clouds off to the North
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Used the wide-angle lens and took a photo of the pool, I was a wee bit bored, lol. Just not feeling very creative and I didn't have the proper shoes/boots to venture out into the pasture.
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Ugh...This plant is bad, bad, bad, it stings and burns if you touch it...Bull nettle. I have declared war on it, it's all over down there!
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Possibly called spreading fanpetals a member of the Mallow family. There were more wildflowers out in the pasture but I wasn't walking out there in sandals.
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Peek a boo...yep another grasshopper
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And yet another one...
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And another a bit closer this time...
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Do y'all know what this is? I knew it was an egg sac but I didn't know until a few months ago what it was from...It's a praying mantis egg sac.
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The pool, quiet and peaceful. After the rain shower passed the wind picked up so it wasn't too peaceful but it was quiet.
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Baby spider on the side of the pool.
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I think you get the idea whether you speak English, Spanish or French...an electric fence around the pool to keep the neighbors horses and cows away from it. We turn it off when we are down there.
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Okay so this is a bit gruesome...I dumped the contents of the skimmer on some cement blocks and it wasn't even 10 minutes later and the fire ants found the dead...I loved the iridescent colors on the fly and as for the wasp type critter a swarm must have hit the pool, there were a lot of them in there.
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Grasshopper and Bumble Bee also in the skimmer to bad they didn't have life jackets on, lol.
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Gauge on the sand filter, looking good!
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Sigh...a wasp nest in the well house. I had bombed the well house and thought we had gotten rid of all the wasp but it seems like some more wasps have moved back in...
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Inca doves also known as Mexican doves, I've found they love red harvester ants. Not sure what they're eating here but they are all over our pasture, along with mourning doves and white wing doves...
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He was in the skimmer and I thought he was dead but the ants weren't touching him and after about 20 minutes later he flipped over and started fluttering his wings...He's not in my bug books, not sure if he is a bee or a fly? He's pretty good sized.
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I had been watching the hawks while I was in the pool. I am pretty sure they are the babies I photographed a while back in the nest, it seems they have moved down to our property. As I was leaving and crossing the bridge I spotted this youngster. He was crying at the top of his lungs but Mom and Dad were having nothing to do with him.
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And this doe is the mother of one of the sets of twins near the house. I noticed she looks a bit thin but I can imagine raising twins will do that...
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And that was my photo adventures for the day, I hope you enjoyed it!