Space...the final frontier...

 Crescent moon in early August...harbinger of the Perseid meteor shower

 Dusk, August 11

 The Bug's favorite sky...

 My mistress...

 Perseus...alack, I failed to capture a meteor flash

 An enhanced view of Perseus with a blue filter effect...no meteor here, either

 Light clouds, blue filter

Still no meteor...I did see a few, just not when the shutter was open

 Unfiltered

 The final frontier, and so on and so forth

And now...

 Welcome to the jungle!

 Super-saturated color on these beautiful bloomers!

 Little Rosie

 Cypress vine, aka "the jungle"

Female ruby-throated hummingbird...love the iridescent emerald!

Our darling Pinky

More Birds Out Back

Juvenile robin

Learning the ropes

 Sparrow at the cement pond

 Female ruby-throat sneaking in for a snack

 The little male who "owns" the feeders

 Yep, he's a cutie!

 Female trying her luck again!

 Ahhh...

 Gorgeous male American goldfinch!

They also can eat while hanging upside down

Some more flower pictures, too

 Cypress vine, going wild

 Sunflower, reaching for the sun
(tomato blossoms in background)

 Delicate white petunia

 We still have some daisies!

 Last of our double-orange daylilies

Two of the last of our yellow daylilies

Pretty yarrow blooms

 And peeking over our privacy fence...

Lovely rose of Sharon hibiscus!

Down on the farm

Actually, it's not a farm...just our little yard

 

But we have 'maters!

 

And Marigolds

 

 Zinnias and Verbena

 Pinky the Pet Geranium, being threatened by Cypress Vine

A few more daylilies, fixin' to bloom

 

One of the last of Ellen's Double Orange Daylilies

And LOTS of birds!

 Young Grackle, trying to get along with a host of House Sparrows

 Dove and Sparrow, observing rules of personal space

This dove? Not so much...just crashed the party!

 Juvenile Robin, rebelling against the notion of self-feeding!

 Pop giving Junior a talking-to, and a bit of worm...

 This fellow knows how to eat

 And so does this one!

 This lady enjoys Pink in the evening...I guess she had Purple for lunch

And the swifts patrol constantly overhead, thinning out the insects

This cute little Bumble steals a snack

And in the evening, we take delight in seeing the occasional little toad coming out.

Life is good out back!