Bewick's Wren
We are fortunate to hear bird calls and songs throughout the day in the garden and surrounding trees. To capture these creatures in a...
First Female Wool Carder Bee Sighting
The wool carder bees Anthidium Fabricius are back, and right on schedule. Their flight season is from May to October, and since this is...
Lovely Margarita Bop Penstemon
Aren't these lovely flowers? Both of our Margarita Bop Penstemon Penstemon heterophyllus'Margarita BOP' plants are in full bloom, growing...
Busy Honey Bee in the Margarita Bop Blossoms
What a delight to observe honey bees visiting the Margarita Bop Penstemon heterophyllus X 'Margarita BOP' blossoms. The bees, mostly...
Sleeping Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee
Yesterday morning the weather was fairly cool and windy. It was perfect weather to pull weeds, deadhead blooming plants, and fertilize...
The beautiful colors of Spring in the garden
Although we haven't had rain for about a month, and probably won't see any more showers until late Fall, the colors in the garden are so...
Sweat bees are here
Sweat bees are amazing. You do need a trained eye to recognize them. I'm still learning and usually don't realize what they are until I...
Flower Flies
Some of the flower flies aka hoverflies family Syrphidae are so large that they closely resemble bees. Often I can't tell that they are...
Ivory Banded Digger Bee in the native garden
Those ivory banded digger bees are so hard to photograph because they seem to be in almost constant motion. They are constantly visiting...
Here's looking at you...
This dragonfly decided to rest in the sun on the brick stonewall. I haven't been able to identify it yet. When it is in flight the wings...
