Fall Colors and Critters

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #137.

I'm late with my posts this week, so this one is also for:

Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #151

Anni's I'd Rather B Birdin'

and Carmi's Thematic Photographic 387 - Where I Shop

This hotel is next to Berkeley Springs State Park.

These minnows live in Warm Springs Run, the creek under that bridge.

George Washington's bath tub:

I don't shop in many stores in Berkeley Springs, but this is one I visit often.

How about a bird and a fence? This is one of 'our' porch birds, a Downy Woodpecker.

A White-breasted Nuthatch:

Race for the seeds:

Fall colors from Cacapon Mountain and Lake Siri:



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Mystery Bee and More

My contribution to Michelle's Nature Notes (#374). I have some pollinators to contribute. First, a Carpenter Bee on a white thistle.

This bee is new to me. Shaped somewhat like a small, shiny black bumblebee. It could fly as smoothly as a hover fly. A mason bee, maybe?

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 379 is Reflective. I have nothing great in that department currently, but here are some pics of Lake Siri from July.


Dog Department: Amelia

And Theda. (Do you see the chipmunk?)

Tiny Chipmunk and more Birdie Porch Party

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #126.



I'm also linking to Anni's I'd Rather B' Birdin'. Here are a few more pictures of the birdie party on the porch.



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On The Porch - Cacapon Mountain

My contribution to Michelle's Nature Notes (#355).



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The Leaf Monster

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #103.

Here's Theda and a Rock Creek Park pond:

I'm also linking to Anni's I'd-Rather-B-Birdin, with some more pics of my feathered friends from Cacapon Mountain:



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Orange Orb Weaver

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 357 is Celebration. Here's a Christmas Cactus my sister gave me.

For TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #89, I have this morning glory fence from Columbus just over a month ago:

I'm also contributing to Michelle's Nature Notes (#340). I did not get a great macro of this Marbled Orb Weaver, but I'm putting it up anyways. I've seen them in vanilla and yellow, but this is the orangest one ever! (My sister, for some reason, did not find this spider nearly as spectacular as I did.)

And here are some of the suet feeder fans:



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Amelia the Couch Surfer and Super Chickadee

My contribution to Eileeinmd's Saturday's Critters #102.

I've recently put up a couple of pics of Amelia the Wolfhound couch surfing. She loved to do this as soon as she was big enough to jump on a couch. Here she is on November 28, 2014:

One short year for a wolfhound:

Some clouds in your coffee Lake Siri?

I'm also linking to Anni's I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Carolina Wren, you're so vain!



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Invisible Bikes and Mountain Laurels

My contribution to TexWiscGirl's Good Fences #88. I was going to count the suet cage as a 'fence...'



But I can go with a mountain laurel roundup instead. The front two look great.


Next over is a recent transplant from the side of the house, where it languished a couple years. All things considered, it's doing well.

And here's mountain laurel #4. In May, this one was doing the best of all of them. But then it developed this brown spot leaf disease over the summer, and it still has it. Does anyone know what it is, and what to do about it?

P.S. I'm also linking to N.F.'s Trees n Bushes 35.
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