More Landscape Photo's Too.

 I like taking close up pictures of bugs with wings because I like seeing their wings, and bugs seem to be a little more...forgiving with proximity to people than un-domesticated animals.  Although I don't know what this bug is, I wasn't able to find out anything bad about it, so I don't think it's too dangerous.

 

 Most of the bugs I take pictures of happen to land on me while I'm out mowing, and sometimes, it gets really difficult to take a good picture with an actual camera when I have only my left hand to use, so I wasn't able to get this one very close.

This one looks kind of like a really small moth, but it was the middle of the day, so I really doubt that it was a moth, from the shape of the wings I might think maybe a Leafhopper, but it seems a bit too chunky for one of them.

 I didn't know frogs had a habit of being so cool.   I keep a little Grabber-Arm tool with me on the mower while mowing to move branches out of the way or other things, and I don't know how long he was there, but he was just hanging out, I guess enjoying the ride.  Which is weird since the tractor was on pretty close to full power so it was rumbling and making lots of noise.  I ended up dropping him off near the tree I noticed him at, since I had to go mow in the sun, and I doubt frogs like the sun much.

 Our pecans are coming in very nice, these are some of the bigger ones.   A lot of the trees we have are still green, but some of them are already starting to brown and open up.  I think this will be a great pecan year.

 I'm going to start taking some landscape-type pictures from now on, these won't necessarily be 'of' anything, and for a while they might be a little bad until I get the hang of taking this style of  photo, so I'll start off with my favorite one, the one I think came out best, of the bayou across the road.  We get all sorts of birds, nutria, gators, pretty much every type of animal in Louisiana is over there at some point in time.

 This one is just a picture of the, mostly, mowed yard, the picture might not do it justice, and this is only about half of it, but it's actually really big.   And while you can't see it right now, it's incredibly wet out there, no standing water at the moment, but pretty much all the dirt is mud right now.  We've had some pretty serious raining over the last couple months, and yesterday we had some more rain, so the ground is pretty saturated.

 And this last one is the tree in the background of the previous picture, it's a pretty big tree.  Not terribly tall, but really wide.  This one is not one of our pecan trees, almost unfortunately, one that big could drop a whole heap of them on it's own



Thanks for stopping by, and if you'd like, let me know which one of the pictures you liked the most, or share your thoughts, I'd be happy to hear them.   Until next time, have a great day or night.

A few in the yard, soon to be in the sky.

 My first photo today is a bit of mystery, these look a bit like un-ripe Elderberry's, while they are still green, but the plant itself doesn't look like an Elderberry bush, and I don't actually know what this plant is, I believe these are actually nuts, because they look a bit more hard to me, rather than soft like a berry.

 And here we have some of our actual Elderberry's.  We have a couple of scattered Elderberry bushes around the yard, but I am thinking about maybe harvesting from some of them, and using them for re-planting, and maybe trying to make some Elderberry jelly or Elderberry wine.

 This one is just a bit of a closer photo to accentuate the look of the leaves and berries of the Elderberry bush as opposed to the unknown one in the first photo.

 Got a couple of really nice photos of an Egret that was happily following along as I was doing some mowing out in the pasture.  The Egrets around here really love following the mowers and tractors around because it causes

 all the big grasshoppers and other bugs to go hopping around like crazy, making them easier to for the Egrets to catch, and the Egrets are more than comfortable with following the big machinery around, it almost doesn't even seem to bother them at all.

 Pecans are a really big deal around here in Louisiana.  When Pecan season comes, there is, almost literally, someone on every corner of the city buying pecans, we have a few trees out in the yard, most of which look like the pecans are coming in quite nicely.  These one's are from a tree in our yard that I think wasn't producing yet last year, but has so many that some of the branches are being weighed down.

If you do happen to know what that first plant is, please, leave a comment and let me know, all my google searches just bring up articles about Elderberry's.    I have a few more good photo's that I will be uploading tomorrow, or, at least in another post, to try and make sure this one doesn't get too cluttered.  Have a nice day,  and thank you for stopping by.

The bugs and the trees.

 So, for the first few pictures, this is a young cicada, even if you've only seen the husks, you've probably heard them, this was the first time I saw a live one, and I think the wings on it look amazing.

                                        From the little research I've done, this is one of the 'Annual Cicada' group, specifically a "Dog Day" cicada.  Annual Cicada's have a life span of 2-5 years, and are the norm for most of the world.  In the North Eastern United States, there are types known as Periodical Cicadas, which swarm every 13 and 17 years, depending on the type.

       

This picture was just to show off how big it was,  I'd say, length wise was probably about finger-length, maybe finger and a half (very scientific measurements)

 This was just a picture that I took artistically, I thought the contrast of the shadow in the middle and the white flower/buds was pretty nice.  I don't know what kind of plant it is, but they are pretty common in the yard, I've seen them on their own, around pecan trees, pretty much anywhere.

In our backyard, we have an orchard with a couple apple trees, and they seem to be doing fair, we also have a pear tree near by, however, it doesn't bear any fruit yet.

Sorry this one looks a bit off, it's a small bug that was climbing on my shoulder while I was out mowing our yard, and I tried to take this photo with a regular camera.  This little bug looks like a leaf hopper to me, which are slightly bad for plants, but not terribly so.  Fun Fact:  There are more species of Leaf Hoppers than all species of mammals, amphibians, birds, and reptiles combined.  That is, a lot.   Source:  Planet Natural's webpage on Leaf Hoppers.

 This is one of our young pecan trees, around 7 years old or so I think, shown here with a person to show it's size.  The power lines are actually a good bit farther back and are in no danger of hitting the tree.    Pecans are a huge business around this area, when it's pecan season you can't turn almost a single corner in nearby Alexandria without going past someone buying them.  While they used to buy them to make stuff with them, most of the buyers just buy them to make Pecan Oil now, I think.


How do you think the photo's turned out?     Which do you think was the best?   Personally, I liked the first Cicada photo on the top left the best, because the wings in that one are very nice looking.   

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed the post.