As I mentioned the other day, posting images is one of the things that intrigued me when I started reading blogs. I’ve always had an interest in photography and my equipment has always been better than its operator. I like to post images that are of some interest to me and I hope the readers enjoy them, too. To that end, I present one I took from the CrabAppleLane back deck about 30 minutes ago.

The CrabAppleLane hummingbirds are almost all gone now. They’re headed south for the winter. We only have a few stragglers now and they’ll all be gone in a week or so. The one pictured is from around CrabAppleLane. She’s guarding the feeder from her vantage atop the Althea outside my kitchen window and chasing off the interlopers from points north. She’s only having moderate success. One will land and feed as she chases off another. The hummingbirds are one of the joys of living here in Bush, LA. There are three or four dozen that live nearby and visit the feeders for Rob’s Wonderful Hummingbird Nectar. They squabble all day every day for about 6 months and then they make up and sit down shoulder to shoulder on the feeders for the last week or two before they start their migration. We have almost all Ruby-throated Hummingbirds here but I have an occasional Rufous or two that wheedle in and get their fill. Hummingbird feeders are inexpensive and nectar costs almost nothing to make. We go through about 25 pounds of sugar per season here. Sugar is cheap. They provide endless hours of amusement and joy for about $15 a year. To steal a line from an old NASCAR commercial, hummingbirds are fuel for the soul.