Kansas Photo Blog of landscapes and nature, farm scenes, cities and towns, rustic, rural, urban, people, animals and wildlife by Anna and Preston Surface.
Super close-up perspective of Golden Garden Spider with raindrops After the rain, I was plucking grape tomatoes from the wild tomato vine next to the corn patch in my garden when I noticed the golden garden spider. I love this species of spider even though I don’t really care for spiders. A few of the...
This morning when we were leaving the grocery store, there was a bit of a commotion going on at the buggy area. A large praying mantis had ridden on a buggy to inside the store. Three employees were huddled around the odd insect. When I approached and peered down, the mantis swiveled its head and...
Out in the Kansas countryside, there was a long and wide flowerbed with radiant, colorful flowers and butterflies. A sign in the flowerbed stated to pick a flower with snipers to use tagged on the board. One butterfly was gracious to pose for me, and of course, I shot a...
In Japan, dragonflies are symbols of courage, strength, and happiness. Copyright © 2010 by Anna Surface. All Rights Reserved.
Besides bees buzzing around the elderberry blossoms, there was this beetle. Beetle, I believe, as in the beetle family and maybe Golofa inermis of the Family Dynastidae – rhinoceros beetles (I searched a beetle website and this beetle looked similar to the Golofa inermis). Upon close inspection by zooming in, enlarging, the photos of the...
Elderberry Blossoms and Bee We have an elderberry tree-bush in the backyard that we had dug up as a sapling from the countryside about 18 years ago. The elderberry is huge with its many trunks and branches forming a canopy over a section of the yard. The blossoms are lovely in the springtime before the...
Kansas Photography collection featuring August and September 2009 by Preston and Anna Surface of animals, countryside, nature & landscapes, landscapes, barns and farm scenes, people, places, late summer and early autumn. Horses, moon, abandoned motel, houses, sunrise, bees, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders, flowers, sunflowers, thistle, spiderwebs, wildflowers, old tire advertisement, windmills,...
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