Flutter By

Nature buffs, please correct me if I'm wrong.  I believe this is a Zebra Longwing.

Wish I could have caught this guy in something other than bright sunlight.

Big ears

1/160, f7.1, ISO 1600, 60mm @ about 4 feet

Ten for $3 at Publix.  Yummy.

Eat your leafy greens

He thought he was fooling me

but I had already caught him in the act.

Only a few stems were down to a nub.

Before the Super Moon

Rural waters at beautiful

Joe Wheeler State Park Lodge and Marina

Rogersville, Alabama

First Creek, just off the Tennessee River

iPhone 5 photo just a few days before the SuperMoon

Furrow disks

from another angle.

Sunny orange

From 2010 at 

Joe Wheeler State Park golf course.

Here she is, Miss . . .

 . . .  American Summer Sandwich.

Seeing a few tomato sandwiches, (a.k.a., mater sammich) on blogs the past few days, I remembered this photo from a couple of years ago.

Although this one is on wheat bread, the right way is with good ole' white bread.

We can eat healthier wheat bread the rest of the year.

Mater Sammich Done Right

One 3/4 inch thick, bread sized mater slice, cut from the center of the mater

Two slices Sunbeam Old Fashioned bread

Lots of Kraft Mayo - not low fat, Olive Oil, or otherwise

Absolutely NO substitutions, including, heaven forbid, Hellman's or any "salad dressing"

Copious amounts of salt and pepper

Two or three napkins

Eat it.

(over the sink)

Green ice

More spring dew from a few years ago.

I don't remember what this plant is, but I do remember that on this morning my husband came in and said I should bring the camera out because the dew was revealing hundreds of tiny spider webs in the grass.  The spider webs didn't turn out well, but I got some other good ones and they deserve another look.

Red ice

Dew on a young stem of a Knock Out Rose bush.

I'm resurrecting some things from the early days of my blog, back before anyone visited. :)

I like some of my photos from back then more than my recent ones.

Patiently waiting

Both abandoned, a wild rose bush and its home wait patiently for someone to fix them up. Somewhere in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 2012

Wired

An International tractor

Rusty rim

Clowns are scary

 . . . and so are these Santa mugs.

In the eye of a spider

Canon 100mm f2.8L lens, hand held no flash, f10, 1/40, ISO 2500, cropped a lot

 See me?  There in the eyes?

Canon 100mm f2.8L lens, hand held, with flash, f4.0, 1/60, ISO 400, cropped a lot

Canon 100mm f2.8L lens, hand held, f4.0, 1/50, ISO 320 no flash, cropped a lot

The end.

Update:  The last photo earned a 1st Place ribbon in the "insect category" at the
2013 Middle Tennessee District Fair, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

Carrying the load

Summertime

Maybe not so much the fries, but a grilled hot dog and relish mean summertime to me.

Looks nice, doesn't it?

Summer also means that soon the heat and humidity will prevent me from enjoying it.

Golden

North Alabama wheat is now golden.

Raking comes next

I tend to take the same photos over and over.  This same shot was taken a few years ago.  The farmer always parks at this same spot.

Stack

What’s in a name? - TimesDaily: Local News

What’s in a name? - TimesDaily: Local News

Something different

A break from all the iron and steel of machinery.

Hey, . . .

a hay rake.

Ugly? Maybe.

There are several wheels in my collection of farm equipment photos.
The farm equipment photo supply will be exhausted soon and I'll move on to something else.

Rurality Seventeen - Rural rolls . . .

 . . . of hay and a rolling black cloud.

Yellow bellied . . .

Making furrows

I believe this makes furrows for planting cotton.  There are multiple sets of these on the planter.

Aligned

Another view of the cotton seeder from previous posts.

Ya' big lug