One last Musk Thistle photo for the season. We (volunteers) have been ‘asked’ to remove this invasive, noxious weed. It is the primary nectar-producing plant out in the prairie where visitor can easily see all of the bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, … feeding, we have been moving aggravatingly slow. Guess we will have to finish sometime this summer.
Took these photos back in April and just getting around to editing them. I came across this crab apples tree along a main avenue. I couldn't get a good angle for a wider shot but it was smothered in blooms. The vertical branches looked like enormous lamb's legs😮 . It was a pretty incredible sight.
(04/22/24)
I don't often photograph seascapes. The coast near where I live is protected and so the waves have never had the energy to create large or interesting rock formations. Because it's mostly granite, it also has high erosion resistance. This means most of it is a smoothed rocky surface as seen above, shallow without dramatic changes. Winter storms are the one time that we get enough wave action to create movement.