Living In Nature

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Nature is not always large and obvious. The photos today capture this lesson from Mother Nature.

It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining on us and you could feel the energy of nature all around us. As we hiked, we saw this beautiful Monarch Butterfly doing her thing. We are seeing a lot of them right now as the migration is approaching.

I shot the first photo. Of course, when I took the photo, I did not see everything in the frame. I did see the bee in the foreground, but I didn’t see the second bee, or the fly.

Nature is wonderful .. and so alive. I was focused on the butterfly, but there is so much life in this photo.

Not far from this spot, I paused to stop and look around. I could not see all of the life in my view: I could see the goldenrod, a few butterflies, but the beauty in nature is the diversity of life. plants, insects, mammals is so large. It is just just amazing in its size and scope.

Oh, you may not like flies when they come around, but how cool is this fly. Wow.

The message: Don’t miss the small stuff. Stop and take it all in. Nature .. life is happening all around you. Take it all it.

~ Rick

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Fly Away …

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I had to share this series of photos. I saw this female Black Swallowtail Butterfly while we were hiking earlier this week. The male is much darker and maybe where the ‘black’ in the name comes from.

Back to the story: While I was photographing her, I saw this carpenter bee on the coneflower next door. He slowly worked his way to the top. As he crested the top of the cone and in an instant, she flew away. I was trying to capture a photo of both of them on the top of there respective flowers but she was having none of it. It almost appears that the bee was happy about ‘chasing’ her away. He even walked out to the end of the flower in her direction as she took off. It was funny. See the photos below ...

~ Rick

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Big, Beautiful, Swallowtail

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I love to watch Swallowtail butterflies. The size, colors and space make this one look like a King Swallowtail Butterfly. Unfortunately the King is not found in this part of the US. They are also even larger than this one. I am not sure about this one.

What I do know is that I love this photo. The bee gives it scale. I’ll just call it a big, beautiful, swallowtail butterfly.

~ Rick


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Nature At Work

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Bees come in many sizes, shapes and colors. This carpenter bee is large compared to the much smaller bee to the left and the one on the flower just below him. Three bees at work, doing their best to polinate. #NatureAtWork

~ Rick


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