Butter and Damsel

Since next week will be flower heavy here are a couple more bug pics. 🙂

An Interesting Fella

I saw this beetle out of the corner of my eye and had to take a few pics.

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Two Dragons

I found these two dragonflies while photographing the sunflowers.

Trails

A few of the trails at the Ijams nature center, they are pretty easy trails. The Tower trail is a bit rough because of the hill ya gotta climb. 🙂

Rabbit and Squirrel

Nothing better than seeing a furry forest critter on a nature hike…. except maybe two. 🙂

Flower Friday

Some wildflowers from the Quarry side of the Ijams nature center.

Limestone Quarry

This is one of many limestone quarries in east Tennessee and part of the Ijams nature center just 5 miles from downtown Knoxville Tennessee. Stone from this area was used in such famous places at Grand Central Station in NYC and the Lions at the natural museum in NYC are made of Tennessee limestone as well as parts of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

I’ve wanted to visit this place for years and last Monday I just did it, miles of nature trails and an annual sunflower bloom are just some of the cool things to do there, I’ll be busy for the next week introducing this place to ya’ll, its a little slice of heaven. 🙂

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