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The season for fresh flowers is over around here. I’ll have to pull flower photos out of my assorted stash that I never got around to posting this summer. Don’t ask me why but I hardly took any perennial flower photos this year. Guess if you see them every day they sort of fade from attention. But hunting for wildflowers is a different story. I’ve got to bring home proof that I at least spotted my prey. So this winter you should expect to see more wildflower pics.

This was a field of wild mustard on a day in the first week of July that I won’t be seeing the like of in a long time. Sunny for sure but the temperatures are going to be a lot lower for quite a while. I didn’t get out of the truck to shoot any individual flowers – it was just a pretty sight and I was happy enough preserving the image.

I can’t remember why I had my truck in the shop. It takes a real beating and has to go in for repairs often. But while waiting I snapped this photo of one of the Potsdam bridges. No real reason to show it except I seem to have gotten sidetracked with landscape photos of that day. I’ll show more but first I want to re-post another photo taken during my wait.

The post was titled ‘Holy Flowering Fangs Batman’ but there’s no need to go looking it up. It was the photo that made the post.

I covered a lot of ground that day. By the time the truck was repaired I figured it best not to work and go fishing instead. My favorite spot is on the Grasse River near my house but I decided to head downriver and try a different location. The river has plenty of areas like this where it gets shallow enough to wade. It’s surprising how many smallmouth bass these areas hold but they do run small. Catching dozens are no problem and it’s usual to hook into a couple decent size ‘keepers’ at any given time. Unfortunately that day wasn’t usual.

To change my luck I gave the little guy a big kiss. It must have worked. When I got home my wife gave me a big kiss even though I was late for dinner.