Hummingbirds

The hummingbirds love to come to our beebalm and other flowers, such as the clematis on top of our arbor:

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Robber Fly Eating Bee

I saw this crazy-looking bug carrying a bee the other day…I looked it up and it is some type of Robber Fly, which is predatory and eats bees and other insects…it injects them with something that liquifies their insides so they can suck it out:

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Indian (Ghost) Pipes

These fungi are called Indian Pipes, or Ghost Pipes since it doesn’t have any chlorophyll:

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Speedwell

Our purple speedwell is blooming in our backyard garden:

all sorts of creatures like to land on it, like this skipper butterfly:

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Clematis-Late Blooms

Our purple clematis usually is the first to bloom in early June, but this year it waited til late July:

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