It was a really foggy morning again yesterday. I took this Red Admiral Butterfly in the afternoon, and unfortunately that was all I had the chance to photograph, as it clouded up and more rain was headed our way.. Side view of the Red Admiral. Poor thing looked a bit tattered, but I think they do get that way this time f year.

Early yesterday morning in the fog. This field had just been cut the night before, and you could smell the heavy odor of wet grass.

Sunlight filtering through the trees.

Our neighbors barn just as the sun is coming up.

Last evening as the sun was setting and as you can see a cloudy sky. We got more rain overnight.

Oh no. Goldenrod. You know what that means--- Fall is fast approaching ! Gary picks the flowers, dries them, spray paints them red, yellow, and orange, and uses them on his train layout as fall trees.

The field corn is doing very well. The stalks are already way over my head.

It was very warm and humid here yesterday although we really didn't get very much sun. Last evening around 6:30 we got some rain, and I found this rainbow looking East from our house. There was plenty of haze in the air too, so I did darken this image a bit. Last night around 11:00 we had a violent thunder storm dumping almost 3/4" of rain on us. Cute little green Grasshopper.

I found this in a patch of weeds. Flower-Of-An-Hour.

Catnip. My cats are forever lounging in the catnip patch.

Double Impatients.

Daddy-long-legs. They are everywhere this year.

RUBY TUESDAY

When we went to watch trains yesterday, we stopped at the Lake Shore Railway Historical Society in North East, Pennsylvania. This is an old restored passenger train depot from 1899. The entire sidewalk out front is brick, and has held up rather well over the years. In the depot is also a train museum. You can see more pictures in Gary's blog "Steam across the Trestle" http://steamacrossthetrestle.blogspot.com/ later today Bricks from the Metropolitan Block Co.

These are from the Bessemer Block, Youngstown, Ohio.

Thanks so much to Mary/the Teach for hosting this fun site. Click on this to see more great pictures. http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/search/label/Ruby%20Tuesday

My regular post for today is below.

Yesterday began very nice. I saw this Common ( Clouded ) Sulphur Butterfly right outside of our garage. It looks like there is a chunk out of the hind wing. Since it was such a nice day, we decided to watch trains for a while. These flowers are at the Lake Shore Railroad Historical Society in North East, Penna. There is a preserved station there and lots of railroad related items.
If you look closely you can see a Monarch Butterfly in the air just to the upper left of the flowers.

Pink Bachelor's Button

Raccoon paw print in the mud.

We went from there to Westfield, NY where we saw more trains. This is a trestle for the Norfolk Southern Railroad.

The CSX railroad tracks heading West toward Erie, Penna.

CSX locomotive heading West.

More train pictures from our trip coming up on Gary's blog, Steam Across the Trestle http://steamacrossthetrestle.blogspot.com/

Good Morning
It's 51º here and the skies are partly cloudy. There is plenty of fog again, but it is supposed to be a nice day.
On my walk yesterday morning with the dog, this crow was calling to his friends way off in the distance. One of the Anglewing butterflies. I'm not sure which one.

A side view.

I liked the colors of this orange and black bug.

Lots and lots of pretty clouds again yesterday.

The corn really is doing well this year.

Good Morning everyone. The sun is shining in all it's glory here, and although it is a bit chilly, 56º, it looks like a beautiful day in store.
There are the blue eggs from my new chickens. (the folks I bought them from gave me a dozen ) If you read my post from yesterday, I got 8 chickens to replace my others that were getting up in years. These chickens are originally from Chili in South America. They lay eggs from light blue to sometimes olive
green, and I have had some in the past that even layed a light pink color. but mostly the blue. There is no difference in nutritional value, and no difference in the color of the yolks. I used to blow out the insides and Tole paint on the shells. They make great Christmas gifts to hang on a tree.
I have a large chain link fenced in area for them that includes their coop. 5 of them spent the night in the coop (smart girls), but the other 3 were not to be found.. I searched last night in the dark with a flashlight for them, but to no avail. This morning I spotted 2 of them roosting in one of our apple trees. The last 1 appeared from nowhere on the front lawn and I shooed her in the pen. At last they are all together. I did clip their wings ( only on one side) which is supposed to keep them from flying too well, but apparently I need to clip again. We have raccoons around here, and they love chicken so I really don't want these girls wandering around outside of their pen. Around 6:30 last evening we had a hard rain. It seemed to come from out over Lake Erie, and we got drenched in a very short time. This picture was taken after the storm had passed.

Nightshade.

Grasshopper

Spotted Touch-Me-Not. These plants have a seed pod ( it looks like a miniature string bean), that will pop when you hold it between your fingers.

Monarch on a Coneflower.

Well, I finally am ready to post. I haven't been able to access anything on my blog since 10PM last evening. Not sure what was wrong.
We did have some angry looking clouds last night, plus a couple storms came through around midnight.

Flowers on the Trumpet Vine. I saw this plant this morning when we went to pick out our new chickens. I gave my older ones away yesterday, and have 8 new girls. 6 of these are called Araucana. They are a chicken originally form Chili in South America that lays blue/ green eggs. The insides look the same and taste the same as any other egg, but the shells are colored.. Tomorrow I'll post a picture of some blue/ green eggs. The remaining 2 new ones lay brown eggs.

Trumpet vine flowers

Garlic blossom

I don't know what this moth is.

Cone flowers and Black eyed-Susan.

Pansy.

More Pansies I have planted in an old useless gas grill.