Cute As Can Be

Just before this afternoon's rainstorm, a little chipmunk was scurrying around for grains of grass to nibble.  With its tiny size and big bright eyes, it definitely wins the cuteness award!

The First to Arrive

Monarch Butterfly on Butterfly Bush

August is the month we start seeing the Monarch butterflies on migration,
and sure enough I saw my first today!

 

Late Summer Flowers

Red Fox & Flowers

Black-Eyed-Susan Flowers
 

Summer lingers on long and hot, but bright patches of flowers provide color, cheer, and even find their way into my paintings. I was so happy to see the sunny yellow and black centered Black-Eyed-Susan blooms come forth because the deer nibbled their leaves and many of their buds to the nub. Guess they hadn't heard that Black-Eyed-Susan plants are supposedly deer resistant :)