A duck, A bug and A-mazing!

We have been trying to spend every nice day out on the lake or out and about our yard, as we know summer is slipping away too quickly.

So, today, I have gathered some pictures of some of the things I found fascinating for you.

First of all,

when we were out on the boat, we saw a small dot on the lake far, far away.

I thought it might be a duck, so I tried to use my zoom to capture it with no success.

It was way too far away.

So we continued fishing.

After a little while, I looked up and it was a duck still coming towards us.

She swam and swam and swam right up close to us, probably looking for a handout of food.

I felt so bad.

We had nothing to give her but a thankyou and this snapshot of her:

We were sitting on our porch one night, enjoying a balmy night.

My husband said: "Do you see that bug???"

Now, normally this makes me stand up, quick to make sure he doesn't mean ON me...

But he pointed to one of our porch logs and said: "Look! I have never seen one like THIS. Look at the length of his tail!"

When I summoned up enough courage to look at it, I ran for my camera. Because I had no idea what kind of bug is was either:

Here is a sideways view of him. Look how long his tail is!:



And, just to creep you out even MORE, here is a closeup of him:

Does anyone know what he is??? What his name is?

We got to talking and looked a while later and he had flown away!

How we didn't NOTICE him flying away, I will never know!

We often go down and sit on our pontoon boat, which overlooks our lake.

Just to relax.

We noticed something else floating on the water.

My husband said it was a mayfly hatching.

Last time I looked, it was AUGUST.

I think he was confused.

The perpetual LATE bloomer....

We didn't see any fish jumping up to the water to gobble him up, though.
He was just floating there.

We have been trying to go fishing every warm night too, after dinner.

It serves two purposes.

Yummy fish to eat

and

perhaps a sunset....

I wasn't disappointed again.
I have been lucky catching sunsets this year.

I never tire of them.

How about you?


At the start of one sunset, it lit up the clouds over the lake to a pretty pink:

And then, the sun got brighter for a while.

Some dark clouds were approaching and I was afraid it would ruin my photo opportunities.

I

was

very

wrong.

Because look at this!:

And

this:

The clouds looked

like

fire itself!:

This shot was taken while we were out in the boat on the lake.

It is the sun setting over the town where we live.

I loved that shot.

Hope you did, too.