I created backgrounds for these lilies using the original image and some overlays to create digital art. As I have said many times before, when I post a photographic art creation I say so. And I also include that information in the tags.
A small sampling of plants and insects.
Some flowers and plants from the gardens.
Sometimes I’ll use iNaturalist on my phone at home to ID a plant on the computer screen. When that doesn’t work, I’ll search online until I find it. I am not sure about my berry ID in the last photo.
Some more form our walk (see the post before this one). The Fowler’s toad is dark one.
The last two photos were taken the next day as we left Chincoteague on June 8. The black vultures are eating a terrapin killed by a car. Marc was interviewed by a reporter for WBOC/Fox 21, of Delmarva on June 6. The young lady reporter wanted our opinion about terrapin road kills and what should be done. We said signs are needed, especially during nesting season. It is the female terrapins that are getting killed.
We took a morning hike in the National Wildlife Preserve. we moved fast to try to outrun the mosquitoes. The photographs of the buntings (male and female) needed rescuing in Topaz Photo AI. There were hundreds of toads. Many baby ones were the size of my little finger nail. There were very few butterflies. I saw a couple of monarchs, cabbage whites, and one least skipper.
In the afternoon we went to have a rest at Assateague Beach. It was nice and peaceful there under our beach umbrella.
There were hundreds of trucks driving out to the island to dump sand for the new beach parking lot. They created a lot of noise. Here is an article about it: In Chincoteague, A Stampede Against Beach Changes – Times Leader. The town’s residents are not happy about it.
Some mixed photographs from our visit to the Laurelwood Arboretum. I used AI to add part of the left leg to the frog.
More landscapes. It was a short 1.3 mile walk around the lake and steam at the arboretum.
