I really need to be sorting some of these books and getting rid of a few of them but I just hate to get rid of my books. I have thousands of them. I don't need that many books but I don't want to get rid of them. I start sorting them into boxes and then I just run out of energy.


Summer. It's hot. But the flowers are blooming. And blooming flowers means things are attracted to them.

A honeybee in a poppy.

And in a prickly pear cactus flower.

Dragonflies use the flowers as a resting place.

And the Tiger Swallowtail butterflies

A day at the park

One of my favorite places for photography is Rancho San Rafael park. The park management views thistles as "nuisance" plants but the park inhabitants like them. The thistle isn't native to the area but I'd hate to see these animals leave if the thistles were eradicated.

 Goldfinch

 The Monarch butterfly

The Tiger Swallowtail butterfly

Even the bees like them.

Bumblebee

And who doesn't like honey?

Honeybee