Epic Wednesday post part 1: walking on water

I'm not quite sure how today's photography got so out of control quantity-wise, especially since it's a weekday, but... yeah. It did. So I'll just get right down to brass tacks.

To start with, some shots of a water bug sitting on the surface of the museum's pond:





With this one, I liked how the dimples are bluish while the rest of the water is much more gray:



Some ripple patterns I thought were pretty cool:







A lucky shot I managed to snag of a grackle as it flew by the office building:



This, believe it or not, is a shot of two blossoms from the same plant in Mom's garden—it's a type of echinacea, according to Mom, and as you can see the color shifts from orange to red as the blossom ages:





A male Cardinal sitting in a blue spruce:



Lots of color in this one:



I liked the symmetry of their positions:



A flurry of activity:



My parents noted that they'd seen a lot of grosbeaks around today, a trend that continued during my visit:









A quick Baltimore Oriole break for you:



And a grosbeak encore:





A male Cardinal that had trouble deciding if it wanted to sit and stay for a while:





Finally, a Titmouse that landed on the porch birdbath for a drink:



Yup, there's more—just click here to see it.