Saturdays ~ Michael

We were woke up at 8am by the telephone ringing...Fred's Dad needed some help with a water pump so off we went over to the Ranch. We spent most of the day over there and I took the camera of course and enjoyed myself.

My son is addicted to frozen cokes....here he is slurping away...

Michael playing with grandpa's dogs.

Grandpaaka hooked up the riding mower to the wagon and talked Michael into going for a ride in the wagon...Michael wasn't real sure about it at first but then he started smiling and thought it was pretty neat...actually he wanted to ride the mower instead.

Michael posing for me...
Walking the path...

The guys were working on the water pump and Michael was playing boss man and I was told to either take him for a ride on the mule (4X4) or take him for a walk...Of course I chose the walk so I could stop along the way and take photos....We were 3/4's of the way to the back of the ranch when Michael had had enough of me and my photo taking so he turned around and headed back...I kept making him wait here and there along the path and he was getting a bit irritated with me, lol...by the time we got back to the guys they pretty much had the pump fixed...so it worked and I got some great photos!! Enjoy them and thank you for stopping in to look!

Saturdays ~ Critters & Bugs

What would a day be without photos of critters , lol....

Spiney Orb Weaver

Texan Long legged fly

You guessed it a butterly, lol....I didn't feel like looking it up...either a red admiral or a checker spot...you guess!

Damsel Fly

Some kind of hopper...lol...if you look it up let me know...sigh! Can you tell I'm tired?

Snail moving and head out of the shell....

Snail tucked in the shell....lol

Sow beetle...we called them pill bugs as kids!

Saturdays ~ Fungi

With all this rain we've been getting the fungi is loving all this moisture. Here are some pretty strange ones....lol...Enjoy!! And NO I did not identify them...so your on your own with these, your guess is as good as mine!

Saturdays ~ Plants

Once again here are some photos of plants that I took Saturday...if you click on the photo to open in a different window it will give you a description of the photo when you put your cursor over it....if it doesn't work let me know...Thank you for looking, Enjoy!

Saturdays ~ Flowers

Here are some photos of flowers from Saturday. If you are interested in more info as to the types of flowers click on the photo to open it to another window and then put your cursor over the photo and it should give you a description...if not let me know and I will add them. Enjoy the beauty!!

Frame in a Frame and a Dragonfly!

Okay it has been raining pretty much non-stop all day and yes we are flooding again...here are some quick shots I took in between rain-showers! I had a challenge this week in my photo group and it is called a Frame in a Frame...the first 3 photos are for the challenge...

Julie framed by the woven-wire fence.

Julie framed by the Crepe Myrtle...

This wasn't what I was trying for but I liked it when I put it up on the computer and got a better look at it....Not sure if it would be considered Frame in a Frame but it certainly would work for the Depth of Field challenge we had a few weeks ago....

This dragonfly was flying around and then landed on the Crepe Myrtle while I was attempting to get photos of Julie...I couldn't believe he stayed there while I moved in closer and closer....I love the way his wings look like stained glass....I used Super Macro and the camera was about 5 inches from him....

Side-view of the same Dragonfly...

Silly Spider story...

Okay we have been outside all this morning as there was a rain storm due to arrive and I wanted to burn up some of Michaels energy....I saw this huge Argiope spider in my flower bed and I mean huge...with her legs she is as big as the palm of my hand...so I though beautiful lets get a photo...lol...the spider had other ideas....I had to stretch across the flower bed and put my foot on the house to get a photo of the front of her and then I hit Super Macro and was trying to get as close as possible...well she started pumping her legs and making her web sway...which of course caused her to sway which in turned caused me to take blurry photos, lol...the little darling...well I backed off and waited until she stopped moving and tried again and she did the same thing again...after 15 minutes of this I just took a close up of her underside....I got the hint!! Silly spider....