A LOVELY FALL DAY...

Hello again you dear friends!  I cannot believe how fast the weeks have gone by!  I have all of the moving boxes out of the downstairs but have oodles to go through yet in the front upstairs bedroom.  Ha!  At least they are out of sight.

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The days have been so beautiful, some chilly, some like summer...and I am loving every one!

I just cannot resist picking up the tiniest of leaves with fall color!  And the Sedum near my front steps is the richest warmest pink!  The honey bees and Bumble bees just love it.

 A large Bumble Bee is busy here. 

And a tiny Honey Bee is on the right side of the flower cluster here.

 And I have never seen sunflower plants that branched out like these near my neighbor's house!  They are beautiful!

And look at the very tall daisies on the other neighbor's side.  I am surrounded by beauty!

I cannot identify this cluster of flowers in the group of trees in my front yard.  Some one suggested that it may be Elderberries?  Because there are clusters of purple berries on another side of the same tree.  But there are Maple, Rose of Sharon, and this one that I cannot identify in the group.

Thank you for coming, come again soon!

Huntington Beach, SC visit...

STORKS, IBIS, ALLIGATORS, SPOONBILL, BUTTERFLIES AND BEES
Last week the weather was just beautiful and we went to Huntington Beach State Park for a visit.  We have a season's pass and when Bill's sister is camping there, we can visit any time.  We went also to see the flocks of Wood Storks who must have been migrating and have been there for several days.  Also Alligators were out.  I got a long shot of a pink Spoonbill which surprised us that he was there at all as they prefer Florida and seldom come this far up the coast.  I wish I could have gotten closer!  Some pictures we took were okay but my daughter was with us and she took some really great pictures with her little camera.

Here is the Spoonbill out on a tiny island in the marsh at Hungtington State Park.  The bird on the right is an Anhinga.

The Wood Stork only has feathers on its head as a juvenile and loses them when they become adults.  There feathers are beautiful but their head looks more like scavenger birds, though they are not.



Notice the little Ibis with the orange beaks on the right and the little Cattle Egret near them.  They are all dwarfed by the huge Wood Storks.

This photo was taken with my husband's camera by our daughter and she used the Zoom lens.

Here is another taken by my daughter.



This is one with her camera of a bee.

I love this Butterfly she took and I have not identified him as yet.  The underside of his wings were silver.

And this last picture is one our daughter took of a Wood Stork that was visiting our little lake in back of our home.  Great Photo!

I sure hope you enjoyed our outing that we are sharing today with you.  Do come back soon, we love having you and love comments!!