wild summer

 

 

 

 

 

What a wild summer it has been so far! I've moved to a new home in the country. Raised monarch butterflies and released them. Watched fawns playing from my office window. Seen the most
lightning bugs I've ever seen at once in my front yard.
I'm loving this living in the country thing. Hope everyone is having a fun summer!

xo laney
 

pretty ladies

 

 

 

On a recent hike at Tanyard Creek I got to photograph some beautiful butterflies. The first one is a

Albino Female Orange Sulphur and the other a Gray Hairstreak. Both were gorgeous and I was beyond excited to spot them. There is nothing better than starting my day with a walk and my camera. You never know what you will see. This has been a great summer for photography with all the much needed rain we have had. I'm going to miss summer when she goes.

 

xo laney

blue and free

My last two contributions to Words To Shoot By were taken on a recent camping trip to the

Buffalo River. While Rob was busy fishing I was photographing the hummingbirds

and butterflies all over a mimosa tree during the BLUE dusk.

Can you see them?

The FREE  flowing river with it's trickling music that drowns your sorrows.

It always works for me.

papilio glaucus

I spent my sunday outside with the blossoming trees and butterflies. Just as I was leaving to go

home and have some lunch a beautiful tiger swallowtail (papilio glaucus) swept by me and landed

on a flowering tree for a sip. She let me photograph her for well over ten minutes, which is pretty good for a butterfly. They move around a lot so you have to have patience to photograph them.

Butterflies make my heart sing. I've always loved watching their graceful flight.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. 

~Nathaniel Hawthorne