https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e936260a_k.jpgJuly 26, 2022 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr
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Similar to previous front yard cactus flowers I've posted but this is a different variety, may be a hybrid, the entire flower is around 8" diameter. In my limited experience cactus flowers last 2 days max.
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iPhone SE pic
This particular bird - very obliging when it comes to posing for my camera.
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The Monarchs are fattening up on the asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed…a species of milkweed), which I can’t figure, as there’s an abundance of good old original milkweed in the upper garden. The swamp milkweed is next to bloom, so let’s who prefers that leaf.
uncertain if all three are tenors............
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I don’t represent myself as anything but a bumbling bike rider with an iPhone, but I like this pic I got of birds over the Mississippi/Root River confluence in the early AM.
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Wild caught, free-range Caprese salad.
Looks like they might be Cliff Swallows. Nice.
rainbow in the backyard
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First rain we've gotten in a long while. Got the dust off the leaves.
"As this is an Australian pic, are they rats or some type of marsupial?"
Plain old Ratus ratus - 100% vermin....... not even the nicer Norway rats. We don't poison them, try to live and let live where possible on our 6 acres
Pre-sunset with a few more sprinkles.
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Someone here likes turtles. The Google says it’s an Eastern Box turtle.
Mike
There was only one, I’ll figure this stuff out eventually.
Yard work.
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Wife's photo. Deer flies are intense. Need a leather t-shirt.