Thursday, August 29, 2019

McMinnville, August

We, Ann and I, were sitting out back sipping our coffee in the early morning, enjoying our time outside and sensing that little odd tinge of heat on the breeze that hinted at the 97-degree day to come, unusually hot for this time and location. I looked up and spied a sunflower, in its youth already 9 or 10 feet high, and still stretching for the cloudless blue sky. I thought, "That's a picture." And so I grabbed the camera and shot a couple hundred frames.

Sunflower, Blue Sky
All American Bacchus
Calendula, Oblique Light
Grace, Grapes, and Wallflowers
Pinot Gris
Tangerine Sage
Brooks Prune Plums
Chocolate Cosmos
Agastache 'Bolero'
Blue Salvia
Akebia, Apple Ladder
Bidens
Still Life with Frog
Anna's Hummingbird, Blue Salvia
Queen of the Backyard
It's fitting to close with a picture of the female Anna's Hummingbird on her favorite perch in the cherry tree, strategically located so she can keep an eye on her two favorite nectar sources, the twinberry honeysuckle and the blue salvia. Woe be unto any other hummingbird venturing into our yard. Her yard that is: we are lucky to be able to share it with her. We went inside and left her to it.

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