Nature is wherever you are

     Can you believe I started this blog in 2014, and never published one post? It was a spin-off of a blog I started the previous year called "Karin's Yard and Garden 2013". Well, the year, yard and garden are long gone, but at least I'm still around!

    My new town is suburban, but there is plenty of wildlife around. My new yard is much smaller, but there are woods behind the house, and further down a brook, but it's not on my property, so I haven't seen it up close. 

    But that isn't stopping me from finding nature and taking pictures of it. Here is what I've found in the past few weeks:

I don't know what kind of weed or flower this is. But the lady bug likes it. We have a lot of ladybugs in the yard!

Another wild flower in the back yard. I'm glad I didn't pull it out before it had a chance to flower!

    

This is a close up of a tiny little pink flower. I couldn't see the patterns on the leaves outside. 

    

Here is my beautiful "pet" butterfly. I see it almost every day. I'm going to miss him if he migrates in the fall. I had a lot of milk weed in the front yard before my neighbor mowed it down. But there is still plenty of it out there.

Here is a pretty dragon fly we had in early July. Never saw him again after that.

Here is the milkweed. It is really quite pretty when flowering.

Here's the deer! In spring I saw three of them together, but ever since just one alone. This was the first time he came down this close. He was so cute going back up through those bushes. I got a short video of it I'll save for another time. 

    I'll be back another day with some more pictures! I hope to go exploring some of the nice trails around here for some more natural beauty! Enjoy the remainder of summer, it will be gone soon!