summer – Wandering Dawgs

Cellpic Sunday – Bloody Point Beach

June 29, 2025June 29, 2025Posted in Nature, Photography, South CarolinaTagged beach, Bloody Point, Cellpic Sunday, Daufuskie Island, Island, summer10 Comments

A beautiful summer day on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.

Bloody Point Beach, Daufuskie Island, South Carolina

Shared with John’s Cellpic Sunday

Also shared with Debbie’s One Word Sunday – Summer

Yellow is my Favorite Color

August 17, 2023Posted in Butterflies, Flowers, PhotographyTagged are you all-in for yellow, Butterflies and Blooms in the Briar Patch, summer, summer blooms, Summer flowers, Sunday Stills, Swallowtail, Yellow13 Comments

For this month’s Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge Terri wants to know if we are all in for yellow. I am!

On a recent visit to middle Georgia my husband and I wandered around Butterflies and Blooms in the Briar Patch at the Briar Patch Walking Trail in Putnam County, Georgia. As I walked along the trail I kept my eyes peeled for butterflies and yellow flowers. I hope you enjoy these yellows as much as I did!

Flowers and butterflies! What’s not to love?

To learn more about this wonderful pollinator habitat please visit their FaceBook page Butterflies and Blooms in the Briar Patch.

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills Are you all-In for Yellow?

Summertime is My Lazy Time

August 11, 2023Posted in Flowers, PhotographyTagged Coastal Georgia, Lazy Hazy Daze of Summer, summer, Sunday Stills15 Comments

July and August in coastal Georgia are always hot, humid and stormy. It’s too hot to sit outside on my porch or go out to take photos. With heat indexes over 100 degrees Fahrenheit it’s easy to be lazy and stay inside to cool off in the air conditioning. Many afternoons have found me inside reading or watching the storms as they roll in. The rainbows after the storm have been spectacular.

The full moons have been spectacular, too.

It’s much too hot to go out and tend to my garden. This year I got lazy and put off pulling weeds in my flower beds because of the heat. I finally found that if I got started pulling weeds about 8:00 a.m. I could get a little work done before the heat got too much for me. Despite my lack of attention, some of the flowers are thriving.

Here in coastal Georgia we usually don’t start getting cooler weather until October. Until then, if you need me, I’ll be inside where it’s cool.

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills Lazy, Hazy Daze of Summer

Backyard Bees, Butterflies and Birds

July 15, 2021Posted in Birds, Butterflies, Nature, PhotographyTagged Bee, birdweekly, garden, Gulf Fritillary, hummingbird, Northern Cardinal, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, summer, summer garden18 Comments

We’ve had lots of activity in our backyard these first two weeks of July. Bees and Butterflies are frequent visitors to the butterfly garden.

Ruby Throated Hummingbirds and Northern Cardinals are two of the birds we see every summer around our back yard. Snow Egrets are frequent summer visitors to the salt water creek. Roseate Spoonbills first started coming to our area a few years ago. I’ve seen them two years in a row now so hopefully they will keep returning each summer.

Shared with Lisa’s Bird Weekly Challenge: Birds Common in your area this time of year

Lens-Artists #104: Summer

July 10, 2020Posted in Photography, Road TripTagged Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, summer35 Comments

This July “Seasons” will be the theme for the entire month with a different season featured each week. Amy is starting the challenge with “summer”. For this challenge I’m taking a trip down memory lane to some of my most memorable summer road trips.

When I was growing up my family took a road trip every summer to visit relatives. However, the most memorable summer road trip from my childhood didn’t revolve around visiting family. In the summer of 1959, when I was eight years old, my father’s work required him to spend several weeks in California. My whole family went with him on a cross country road trip to see America. I spent many hours sitting between my two brothers in the back seat of our Ford station wagon as we made our way to the west coast. We stopped at national parks, a Santa Claus village, prairie dog towns, and bought cowboy hats. While in California we panned for gold, went to Disneyland, San Francisco, and Yosemite. On the return trip back east we saw more national parks and many more road side attractions. There’s more about my 1959 adventure at Revisiting My Childhood in Pictures.

Ford-on-Utah-State-Line — Our family of 5 traveled cross country and back in this Ford Station wagon in 1959

Old-Faithful-Lodge — Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone National Park, 1959 ~ photo from my Dad’s digitized slide

San-Francisco-street — San Francisco street, 1959 ~ photo digitized from my Dad’s slide

Now flash forward to 2006 when Henry and I made our first cross country RV trip. Our main destinations were the Grand Canyon North Rim, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, three Utah National Parks, the Black Hills and lots of places in between.