Sunday, May 31, 2009

Backyard "Wildlife"

Friday evening my Grandma, mom, Becky, Sara and her girls all came over for dinner. We had a wonderful evening watching the thunderstorm blow in and just enjoying each others company. The girls all had a blast playing together; they hate it when its time to go and us "adults" actually got to sit down and.....chit-chat!
While sitting outside, we were able to watch a monarch butterfly and some type of oriel that was very busy picking flowers off of my locust trees and dropping them.


Lovin the nectar from the russian olive flowers.

Felix thought he would join us too but was soon bored and decided that he needed to go terrorize Ruby.(our black and white cat) He's the one that likes to stir things up.


Sara. She's faking this smile. She found out that Jessie and Marisa had a water fight earlier and the chair that she sat down in was in the middle of it.


Becky had a blonde moment today. She went golfing and put sunscreen on her face and shoulders but forgot her legs and neck sooo....... after caking on the aloe vera with lidocaine she is sitting with minimal pain at the moment; the severity of the burn really set in later that night. OUCH!!




Here was the busy little bird that was having a grand time picking the flowers off of my trees and just dropping them as fast as he could despite the fact that we were sitting under these trees.


89 flowers left on the tree, 89 flowers left on the tree, take one down, pass it around, 88 flowers left on the tree...................


He was really into what he was doing because I was standing right under him taking these pics. Talk about being focused on a job!







2 comments:

Geer Family said...

I don't know how you take such good pics...surely that monarch was first caught, gently killed, and then put on the grass for such a perfect picture!

Unknown said...

I was sneaky; plus i have a good zoom on my camera. :)