A bee on a thistle.

This a nest of tiny spiders on our deck.

Dandelion ready to spread its joy over our yard. Also in case you didn't realize it you can double click on photos and see them in a larger size.

These are snowberries and are about the size of large blueberries.

This is a seed pod of a maple tree in early spring.

One of our roses.

Another close up.

More poppies.

A poppy up close and personal.

I'm not sure we planted these but a lot of them came up this year.

A poppy seed pod.

All of these flowers and trees are on our place on Lummi.

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I really like the star fish on our beach at low tide. It looks to me as if they are dancing.

A pair of eagles.

Another shot.

We have lots of eagles flying by our back yard. On occaision one will stop in one of our trees. We have a Celestron telescope that is pretty powerful. In this shot I trained the telescope on the eagle and then using the macro focus on the camera focussed on the eyepiece.

This past winter after the swallow left, some other birds took over their nest. Here is one of them- reportedly a Golden Crowned Kinglet.

After the quads left the nest, mom and dad still had to feed them. Here is a shot of an in-flight feeding.

Here is a feeding in action.

The next year they had quadruplets. Here they are in the next at feeding time.

Another shot of the twins.

There has been a barn swallow's nest on our back porch for several years according to the previous owners. In the summer 0f 2003 these two babies ventured out of the next for the first time. They let me get pretty close to them.

Backyard fog.

No this is morning fog over Lane Spit.

Morning fog over Lane Spit.

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When we were looking for a place on Lummi we orginally wanted to be on the west side because of the sunsets. We ended up on the east side looking at Mt Baker and I think now the Sunrises are much more spectacular than the Sunsets.