Summer Photography 2022 - Part Two

 As promised, here's part two of my summer pics. I'm not going to say much, I pretty much covered that yesterday. There are slightly less in this post, but not by much. Hope you enjoy!

Pretty blue flowers next to the fence. There's also an ant on the flowers.

We planted quite a few of these flowers this year. The red and gold/yellow combo is one of my faves.

This flower is more orange and yellow.

Pretty daisies.

I love this one of the group of daisies.

This one too.

This is my favorite daisy pic - I need to edit it!

This big ass leaf bug made its way into the house and in the lamp shade this summer.

He was cordial enough to let me photograph him.

He was a pretty sketchy bug, though.

Tiny little spider.

Love this bull thistle!

A broken wildflower.

More daisies.

Gotta have some leaf pictures.

They're my favorite.

Found a baby bumblebee on these flowers. Would've gotten more pics if Max hadn't scare it off.

I'm obsessed with these pics of this Lady's Thumb - they're so pretty!

We have Lady's Thumbs all over around here.

But none of the Lady's Thumb have been this pretty before.

Lady's Thumb weeds have also been known to be invasive, but I don't mind.

These look like cattails, but they're not. They're also pretty small, so I call them kitten tails.

More dandelion seed heads.

And a bonus picture of Max pooping, just for fun.

Summer Photography 2022 - Part One

 I have to say, I didn't take as many pictures this past year as I normally would. A lot of that was due to working, tending to the garden or swimming. And not to mention, we had some really, really hot days this past summer. Like weeks and weeks of temperatures in the upper 90s - which is why there was a lot of swimming involved, lol. 

Of course I still managed to get several hundred pictures of nothing. Well, they're not nothing to me, but they can get quite repetitive to most people, myself included sometimes. I had quite a few (like 200+) summer pics picked out, but got it down to like 60 or so, which is why I'm going to break the summer photos posts into two parts. 

I'll stop rambling and get to the pics, hope you enjoy!

Pretty purple flowers.

And white flowers with pink centers.

And blue flowers.

We legit had so many different flowers planted this year.

Super bright foreground lighting makes for a studio effect.

Macro fly on a daisy.

I love these wild lilies.

Butterflies are so hard to capture, but I managed to nab this guy.

Not for very long, though. Butterflies look so pretty on flowers.

Some type of bug in the garden.

This spider looking black and red bug was obsessed with the cucumber plants this year.

These pictures should've been after the next two, because he hid on the bottom of the leaves when I kept taking his pics.

See, this should've been first.

He as not a happy garden bug, very camera shy.

Bug on a dandelion.

Of course I have to have pics of dandelion seed heads - they're some of my faves!

I'm obsessed with taking macro shots of dandelion seed heads. So pretty!

Not much left of this dandelion seed head.

A mosquito in our azaleas.

We bought this azalea bush a few years ago when it was tiny, but it's gigantic now.

Tiny ant on the azalea flower.

He's a cute little ant, as long as he's outside, lol.

Pretty columbine flower.

I've always loved raindrops, but I've never had a powerful enough macro lens to get the shots I want. This is probably one of my favorite waterdrop pics I've ever taken.

I also really enjoy this raindrop on a leaf.

This is a perfectly round raindrop.

One more raindrop on a leaf for good measure.

More bleeding hearts, just because.

Raindrops on one of the plants.

It was a mad obsession for a couple days.

More raindrops, on a red flower this time.

Raindrops on a purple flower.

A wet dandelion seed head.

I love this dandelion seed head macro shot.

Yikes, more raindrops, lol.

This looks like a little sailboat on this blade of grass.

Raindrops on grass.

One more wet dandelion seed head.