A Day in the Country

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This is an ordinary day in the country.  

This was the tinest butterfly!   I don't know what kind it is, but you can see its size compared to the Lantana blooms.   It looks faded, but that may be just the way it looks all the time.   Its body (and the body of the one below) has a bluish look.

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I'm always chasing Butterflies when I see them around the flowers.  This is the first year I've seen this Common Buckeye butterfly.   It was a little ragged looking, but it was fun to get to make pictures of it anyway.

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I walked up to the woods behind our house and just stood there listening to the silence, which was  broken only by the sound of leaves fluttering to the ground.   I want to walk up in these woods, but this is our neighbor's property where they keep the horses.

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I was out in the yard with the camera, (imagine that!) and I thought the field across the road looked really white, so I made this picture.    Later that day the machines came in and picked it clean!

This was made with the 300 mm lens, so the field is not nearly as close as it appears.

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The Chipping Sparrows are back!   They swooped in and checked out the feeders.

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I can depend on Babe to come to the fence every time I go near there.   She's a very gentle old mule.

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I was so glad to see that the Carolina Wren is back!   He is so cute and so loud!!!  Last year I got some good shots of him when he perched near the dining room window for a long time.  He almost made us late for Sunday school that day!

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Mr. Bluebird flew in a sat in the seed feeder for a long time, just singing his song.  Then he hopped over in the pan of water and sat there for a  long time.  He finally got out, ruffled his feathers and flew away.