Full Sturgeon Moon

I got out early when the moon was still high and very bright to catch this photo of the full Sturgeon Moon. From the Farmers Almanac: "Full Sturgeon Moon – August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon."

Lucky Friday 13th?

If you can put much stock in these sort of things, we had mixed indicators of our fortune today. Friday the 13th is suppose to be a day of bad luck. On the other hand, seeing a rainbow is suppose to be good luck and it may even have a pot of gold at the end of it. I caught this photo of a rainbow after a storm with over an inch of rain. Notice how the storm blew my corn and sunflowers down (bad luck?), but we really needed the rain (good luck?). Hopefully, the omens will cancel each other out and we can get through the day no worse than we started.

Frenzied "Flutterby"

When I watered flowers early this morning I got my sneakers wet, so I put then on the sidewalk to dry in the sun. I noticed that an Eastern Swallowtail butterfly landed on them and rested there.
Later when my wife and I went out to drink coffee on the porch, I grabbed the shoes and put them inside. As we sat there we noticed this very frenzied butterfly darting back and forth were my shoes had been. A couple of times it came and circled over my head for several seconds. We finally realized it was looking for my shoes.
I put them back out on the sidewalk and it landed on them and stayed there until I got the camera and took some pictures and we finished our coffee.
I'm not sure what attraction the shoes had, but the incident made a pleasant morning distraction.

Naked Ladies

When the weather gets hot you can expect the "naked ladies" to bloom. The Belladonna Lily comes up in the spring with green foliage which dies back and then when it gets good and hot in late July and early August they pop back up on long stems and bloom.