When the weather warms up, dragonflies grace us with their presence. This first one landed on a sprinkler head in our garden. It's a Flame Skimmer. Isn't it exquisite?
And here is an Eight-spotted Skimmer I photographed at Bower Park on the Gualala Ridge. (Thanks to Ron LeValley for the identification!)
And here's a photo of a Blue Dancer, taken by Craig Tooley. It is in our book, Mendonoma Sightings Throughout the Year!
Thanks to Craig for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
Bush Honeysuckle, Lonicera involucrata, is sporting beautiful berries and flowers. Peggy Berryhill photographed these striking berries.
Bush Honeysuckle is a native plant and is also called Twinberry, for obvious reasons. When I looked this plant up on Wikipedia, the site said, "It may be edible or very unpalatable, or even poisonous." Well, let's just admire this beautiful plant and not taste the berries!
Thanks to Peggy for allowing me to share her photo with you here.
Ron LeValley photographed this beautiful sight recently - the Mendocino Headlands.
Today the coast is shrouded in fog. Sometimes it pulls back, as it did for the 4th of July parade in Point Arena this afternoon. It was a fun parade, with hundreds of little children watching from the sidewalks. I marched with our golden retriever, Sunny, with the Paws for the Library entry. The Point Arena Library is raising money for a seismic retrofit, a costly proposition! If you'd like to contribute, here is their website: http://coastcommunitylibrary.org/
Thanks to Ron for allowing me to share his photo with you here. To see much more of Ron's nature photography, here is the link to his website: http://levalleyphoto.com/home/
Ken Fischer saw this fire rainbow several weeks ago. He said it only lasted about two minutes.
Fire rainbows are also called circumhorizontal arcs. These rainbows are caused by the refraction of the sun in ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
Here's a larger one, which was taken by last year by Connie King.
A beautiful phenomenon to behold!
Thanks to Ken and Connie for allowing me to share their photos with you here.
No rainbows today - there is nothing but oh-so-blue sky here on the coast. It already feels like the holiday has begun!
How wonderful would it be to look over at your house and see a complete rainbow over it? That's what Davina Allen saw two weeks ago.
Surely this means good luck is to be had for the Allen family!
Thanks to Davina for allowing me to share her photo with you here.