More from the Porch

We are having an unusual amount of rain this August, or so i think as this is only my second August here ... still, its rained almost everyday for the past 10 days (i love it!) but its causing problems for those living along rivers' edges. Its raining as i write.

Season's end, for the Sunflower

And these were growing in the flower pot yesterday but are already gone.

From the Table

I was sitting at our dining room table earlier today, cleaning the sensor (actually, the cover of the sensor) and just as i put everything back together, a Goldfinch landed on the, mostly dead, sunflower on the back porch which i was facing.

The motivation for putting up the bird feeders, seen earlier in this blog, was the neighbors up the street have dozens of very large sunflowers in the yard and when we walk past there is often half a dozen Goldfinches eating ... so i put up bird feeders not really thinking about the Goldfinches but hoping for a variety of birds.

So when i looked up and there was a Goldfinch on the sunflower i picked up the camera, which had a 100mm lens on it which was o.k. at the distance i was from the sunflower, and took two photographs before it flew away. It is a delight that i know have a photograph of a Goldfinch on the sunflower:

So i thought i'd just photograph a few more items from where i sat —

The water under the tomatoes is from rain that rain on the sill 'fore we could get the window closed which was only 45 minutes earlier. I didn't notice we'd miss that water until i was about the photograph the tomatoes.

Also, the above photographs are files that are twice the size of the photographs i post; an experiment to see if that makes any difference in viewing them. When you click on them, are they any larger then the earlier photographs in this blog?