Green days of August

I'm not entering the August daily blog because I will be gone two weeks, plus company from out of town, kids returning who want to go the ocean, things to finish up in the yard and house, spending time with family and friends...you get the idea! I'm picking up my layaway this week and it includes a new toy! An air compressor! Yay! I can't wait to have some fun with that!

The theme for August is green. What a nice theme. It's the same theme as my house is getting! haha.

So, in honor of this nice theme, here you go! I'm so addicted to macros. Every time I take macro shots I am reminded again that I need to get back to SLR. I will. I'm starting the research now.


One of my big thistles. This plant stands almost as tall as I do.



One of my pumpkin blossoms.



Broccoli~!



Zucchini!



I caught this bug from across the yard. This dandelion is by the house. I'm sitting in my lawn swing. Of course, I didn't know it was there when I took the picture!




A nice little spider. I had to put the leaf under him so I could get the picture. The wind was blowing too strong to catch him just hanging on the web.



I found a tiny little thistle bush in the ditch. None of these thistle flowers are very big. All < than an inch!

Yesterday down at Port of Tacoma

It was a gray day yesterday, with rain and dark clouds, but I took some pictures anyway, while waiting around at the Port's medical clinic. It is a very noisy place, with semi-trucks whizzing by constantly and the cranes lifting and dropping containers. It was interesting to me that, as the trucks rolled by me, the sidewalk actually bounced. It felt like mini-earthquakes.

There is a place next to the clinic that grinds up log leftovers into beauty bark. It smelled really nice. It was chilly enough that the bark was steaming as it came out of the grinder shack and onto the conveyor belts.

Conveyor belt delivering ground bark to the pile.

The steam coming off the bark.

A little shack behind the grinder shack.

The container cranes that take the containers off the ships and also put them on the ships.

The truck that lifts the containers onto and off from the semi-trailer beds.

I love to watch these things work. I miss working at the boat.

Another view of the cranes. I love these things.

I need to find out what these are because I want some. They are growing on a bush.

Again.

A rhododendron at the clinic.

Big through the magic of the macro lens.

Stamen inside an azalea.



Rhody bud.



Lilac buds.



These little flowers are in the grass. <1 inch.



Over easy.