August 2023

Our roses are more beautiful this year than they have ever been before

Just playing with a b and w reedit

We must have seen more than 300 that morning. I'm guessing they are migrating

Foggy morning but I love how they all fly off together

And what a beautiful morning it was

They are so cute

Looks as if the crocosmia is sucking him in

This was due to the Canada fires I think

Enjoying the butterfly bush

On Washburne Beach on a foggy morning

Our roses are more beautiful this year than they have ever been before

At the lookout on Cape Perpetua

First time since April and everything has been so dry that we have a fire only 10 miles away

Magical morning

Such a beautiful spot

In the garden

The magic that happens in the sand

I tried all summer to catch one in flight and finally succeeded

Maybe they are migrating

I was tickled to see they way the sunset colored the background

They don't usually fly in formation and they are headed North rather than South!

It is a beautiful gold color. Jim transplanted a few to hopefully help them spread

Battered but still flying

From nearby fires

In our yard

I haven't seen one of these before

We stopped on the way North for a dawn hike

On Washburne Beach

Jim called me to get my camera when he saw a fawn in the back yard. Instead of one, there were 4. At first I only saw one doe and wondered if she'd had quadruplets, but then I saw a second

Our roses are more beautiful this year than they have ever been before

I couldn't get my camera out quickly enough to capture the osprey's dive, but at least I got him flying off with it

In our back yard. I think it was a red tailed hawk but he was sitting in an unfamiliar spot

I like the eyes

I was really surprised to see this little tree frog climbing up into the hot tub

This is the same osprey we saw dive and fly off with his catch

Out on the rocks at low tide

On our butterfly bush

On the deep purple butterfly bush

On a foggy dawn on washburne beach

Our roses are more beautiful this year than they have ever been before