Photos of My Port Townsend

This bird feeder sits in a small Japanese Styrax tree. Mornings see a number of birds stopping by for breakfast. A female house finch agreed to pose for a photo.

Our summer has been cold enough that lavender is blooming a full month later than normal. The bees don’t seem to mind that their nectar crop is late. Our lavender plants have so many bees that you can hear the buzzing from 10 feet away.

This female Rufus hummingbird spent a few minutes working the penstemon flowers in our garden. She would zoom into a flower, then back up and go for the next.

The morning fog that Port Townsend has been experiencing offers some nice benefits. Here it deposits hundreds of little dew pearls on these bread poppies. For more closeup photos, visit Lisa’s Chaos’ Macro Monday.

We heard the strangest crow calls. We can recognize a few different calls but this was different, loud, insistent and demanding. One crow landed on our roof then two more alighted soon after. The two must have been babies because they followed the first with their beaks open, insisting on being fed. Those are babies [...]

Going out just before supper to pick ingredients for a stir fry is wonderful. The strawberries were just for color, though they were from our garden. I ate them right after the shot. The marigold will actually get sprinkled over the finished meal.

I know this is totally silly, but I like it. You’re seeing the shadows cast by our bird feeders.