My early morning drive today!

I start each day by taking my camera for an early morning drive around our village and find much beauty to share.  these pictures are an example of what I found this morning!

 

 The Oromocto River was very blue and beautiful this morning!

 This photo surprised me as I downloaded it, as I didn't know there was a fawn with the doe when I took the picture!

                      Looking into the darkness of the forest.

                 A doe in the meadow feeding early this morning.

                   A sunlit meadow full of yellow wildflowers.

                                  Mist rising over the river.

Magnificent poppies with a 'dash' of sunlight

A Dash Of Sunlight:
Just add a 'dash of sunlight ,
and ordinary takes flight!

                            

delicate tissue,
unfolds its beauty,
the beauty issues, creating this golden delight!

 

Wild Blue Flag and Iris in My Garden for TODAYS FLOWERS

There is a strong similarity in appearance between the wildflower Blue Flag and cultivated Iris found in flower gardens.  Their colouring and patterning is very similar as is their time of blooming.  At the present time roadsides and meadows are flowing with the beauty of the Wild Blue Flag and in our garden  our Iris have just come into bloom during the recent rainy days.  I will let the photos do the talking for the rest of this post;  The first four photos are of the Wild Blue Flag:

 The next two photos are in my garden . I shall try to get better pictures of this cultivated Iris later on today as the garden dries.

Searching for a White-tailed Deer

Ever since I viewed a photo of an almost white White-tailed deer earlier this week, I have been searching for it every morning.  I know the area where it had been seen and every morning for the past few days I have hopped in my car at 6:30 a.m. and have gone searching for it.  But , although this seems to be a good time to see deer feeding, I have not found the white one yet;  although I have seen other deer in the area.
This morning I saw three deer; one was feeding in a meadow and two others were alongside the highway Following are pictures of the deer I found this morning.

          I was sitting in my car as this deer crossed the road and we were looking at each other.

    Be careful on the road dear deer!

.                        I most always see a deer or two feeding in this meadow each morning!

A catchup posting day

Sometimes I find that if I do not post almost immediately after downloading recent pictures then my photo files get backed up and often many do not get posted.
For example the deer photos in this White-tailed Deer Collage are from four different  downloads, Some one had seen and posted a picture of an almost all white deer in our area and I have been hoping that I might find it and get its photo, No such luck on my part however I do seem to encounter deer every time I go out looking for it.

.  Thus my recent results are in the collage posted below.

Many of my nature finds have been when I have been looking for something else.  When you know when something usually happens then a search is often initiated at that time.  As well as looking for white deer I have been looking for Snapping Turtles laying eggs recently for it is almost the time for their seasonal egg laying.

.  Earlier this week I was scanning a pond for these huge amphibians ( I have seen them in this pond other years,) I didn't see any turtles there but I did see  and hear quite a few noisy frogs.  The presence of so many frogs in the pond suggested to us that there were probably no snapping turtles in there.The

frog shown above was a handsome specimen of a frog which we had found in the pond:
I love to find American Bitterns as they are such a large bird.  Last week I found one along the shoreline of a small pond.  The Bittern didn't seem at all threatened by my presence but it did maintain its usual 'cautionary stance', that of pointing its long beak skyward.  I have heard that Bitterns take this positioning,  assuming that their long beak and striped body will help them take on a camouflage

appearance of a shoreline weed and thus blend into their surroundings.  Nope, it didn't work this time buddy!  I saw you! and so did my camera.
And lastly , but definitely not least as we haven't seen any hares a.k.a: rabbits recently, until yesterday that is.  This little one was standing on the roadside shoulder and it stayed there not moving as my husband brought our truck to a stop beside it. Unfortunately I could see that it was infested with a few ticks on its ears, face and back of its neck.  What a pretty little woodland creature this hare was. I do hope I see more of them in the coming  summer days ahead.

 And another beauty I want to share!  The wild Lupines are in bloom everywhere , along the roadsides, in empty fields, their colourful beauty is seen everywhere!  Another blue wildflower being seen is Blueflag, which is definitely a cousin of the Iris family. I must take a few pictures of blueflag in the coming days.  We now have an Iris in bloom in our garden.

                         Lupines growing along the railroad tracks.

Great Blue Heron in Flight

Sometimes you just have to point your camera skyward and cross your fingers in hopes that you can get a photo.  Such was the case last week one day while standing on the shoulder of the Branch Road when I spied a Great Blue Heron flying overhead. Herons are such magnificent birds!

Earlier the same morning I saw this heron ( shown below) on the shore of a large pond nearby!

Poppies for Mosaic Monday

I had noticed earlier last week that I would soon have poppies in bloom; however I was surprised when I returned home on our  rainy Saturday to see several in bloom.The surprise was that it wasn't the ones in bloom that I had expected to bloom first, rather it was others that I hadn't noticed these to be so near blooming.  I do hope we get some sunny days this week in which to enjoy the magnificent  blooms and colour for these blossoms are always such a highlight to our summer garden.  May their beautiful blooms continue, no matter the weather that prevails.

 

I am linking with Mary  at her dear little red house at :http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.ca/ for  her Mosaic Monday meme.