Summer Day Trip Photos. #2

Hello everyone and Happy Monday! Also, Happy August to all of you! For us this is the last month of summer and already there has been a significant change in the weather. We were having some nice hot weather for a while, but things began to change on Saturday. That high humidity is gone, plus the higher temperatures. We still might reach a high of 75F (24C) today and tomorrow, then the temperature takes a bigger drop.

And our night temperatures are back in the cool range. That makes it easy to keep it cool in here, so I won’t have to use my fans much from now on. When I went shopping this morning, many people, including me, were actually wearing jackets.

Part of a lake, and shoreline, we stopped at.

Well, today I want to share more photos of our recent day trip to some lakes, back on July 25th. Hard to believe it’s 11 days ago already. Anyway, I did concentrate a lot on the wildflowers during that trip since this is the part of summer with a lot of different wildflowers. I was also hoping for more insects, but they were not cooperating with me at all this time.

Fireweed was a commonly seen wildflower that day. This one has an Orange-Belted Bumble Bee on it, can you spot it?

Oh well, I hope to get one more trip this month and maybe I can get more insects at that time. I missed one very beautiful dragonfly, one I had not seen before. Sigh. There were a lot of bees around and that is a good thing to see. Plus there were some flower flies, though certainly not like it was 2 years ago. Perhaps they go in cycles.

Here is a close up of the Fireweed and the little Orange-Belted Bumble Bee.

At least there were more than last year, so that is good. They are very important pollinators for our wildflowers. I’m glad I was able to get photos of so many different species of flower flies when they were abundant 2 years ago. Well, I hope you all have a wonderful Monday and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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