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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.
©2024 Steve McLeod.
Muffin’s Fun! #88
Hi, hi to everyone!😺 It Monday again and that mean it the first and second day of the week. I still think that people who make calendars should go back to school. Calendars just not make sense at all. Now today is holiday day too, but not everywhere. How that makes sense? It says on calendar that today is holiday, but my human say it only holiday in some places, not all places. I just look at him and blink eyes. Then I go and tear up calendar into tiny shreds of paper. That part fun. So guess calendars not all bad. hehehe!😹 Here is funnies for today…
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Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.
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A lawyer phoned the governor’s mansion shortly after midnight. “I need to talk to the governor — it’s an emergency!” exclaimed the lawyer.
After some cajoling, the governor’s assistant agreed to wake him up.
“So, what is it that’s so important that it can’t wait until morning?” grumbled the governor.
“Judge Pierson just died, and I want to take his place,” begged the attorney.
“Well, it’s okay with me if it’s okay with the funeral home.”
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“Mugging” is when somebody steals your coffee.
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A person calls a pet store: “Send me thirty-thousand cockroaches, at once.”
Astonished clerk: “What in the world do you want with thirty-thousand cockroaches?”
Caller: “I’m moving out today, and my lease says I must leave the premises in exactly the same condition I found them.”
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A retired couple are sitting together at home, getting cuddly; he takes off his glasses & moves closer.
She: “Sweetie, without your glasses, you still look like that handsome young man I married.”
He: “Well, Honey, without my glasses, you still look pretty good too!”
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Some people are like blisters. They don’t show up until the work is done.
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Well, that all for today folks, I hoping you have very nicest day!
Muffin. 😻
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