A lovely purple flower image that I like. I took this picture back in the summer of 2014. I believe that it is a wild foxglove plant.
Flowers #346
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American Robin #11
An American Robin that was visiting my garden periodically looking for worms. It will be another 2 months before I most likely will see another one of these. Welcome To my first photo post of this year.
Snow covered field
Just a snow covered field picture I took in 2014 at the farm property.
Northern Cardinal #5
A male Northern Cardinal that was hanging around the bird feeder.
The northern cardinal is a bird in the genus Cardinalis; it is also known colloquially as the redbird, common cardinal or just cardinal. It can be found in southern eastern Canada, through the eastern United States from Maine to Minnesota to Texas, and south through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Big Island of Hawai’i. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Cardinalis cardinalis
Songs: Both male and female Northern Cardinals sing
Brown Creeper #12
A Brown Creeper that I found walking up a pine tree in the near by woods. The brown creeper, also known as the American treecreeper, is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper family Certhiidae. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Certhia americana
Family: Certhiidae
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable)
Black-throated Green Warbler #45
A Male Black-throated Green Warbler.
Battleship New Jersey (BB-62)
I was down in Philadelphia last weekend with my family when we stumbled across the the Battleship New Jersey moored on the Camden side of the Delaware River as floating museum. I thought I would share some pictures of the ships weaponry today. Nothing really special with the photography, just something a little bit different then my usual posts. My youngest son Daniel had to help me with all of the names of the naval guns this ship has for I do not know them.
16 inch (406 mm)/50-caliber Mark 7 naval guns
5 in (127 mm)/38 cal guns
20 mm Phalanx CIWS
50 cal Browning
20 mm (0.79 in)/70 cal Oerlikon guns
BGM-109 Tomahawk
40 mm (1.6 in)/56 cal Bofors guns
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