Peaches!

Our four year old peach tree is producing lots of fruit.  The variety is Reliance, which is a good variety to withstand northern winters. The peaches are sweet and juicy.  We don't use any pesticides at all and this year's crop is beautiful.

Bees, Birds & Butterflies

 Today is a beautiful, sunny, breezy day -- perfect for watching and photographing birds, bees and butterflies.

Ruby Throated (female) hummingbird on climbing honeysuckle

Monarch and bee on side-by-side zinnias

Monarch caterpiller

Sunflower with bumblebee

Male monarch nectaring on zinnia

Female monarch on lantana 

Egg laid by female monarch (above) on swamp milkweed (asclepias incarnata)