blossom – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Charleston Lake White Water Lily Images

By Mia McPherson|August 4th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Charleston Lake Park, Franklin County, White Water Lily|Tags: aquatic wildflowers, bloom, blooming, blossom, Charleston Lake, flowering, lake, native, Nymphaea odorata, summer, water, White Water Lily, white wildflowers|

This morning, I'm sharing two White Water Lily images I took last month at Charleston Lake Park in Franklin County, Arkansas. I love these pretty water lilies.

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Native Purple Passionflower In Bloom

By Mia McPherson|July 26th, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Purple Passionflower, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: bloom, blooming, blossom, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, flowering, native, Passiflora incarnata, perennial vine, Purple Passionflower, purple wildflowers, summer, vine, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

There are wildflowers blooming now that I haven't seen since I left Florida in 2009. Purple Passionflower is one of those flowers, so I had to take some photos.

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Black-eyed Susan Photos With Insects

By Mia McPherson|June 14th, 2024|Categories: Black-eyed Susans, Johnston County, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Andrena rudbeckiae, bee, bees, Black-eyed Susan, bloom, blooming, blossom, bottomlands, caterpillar, Coneflower MIning Bee, field, flower, flowering, insect, nectaring, riny, roadside, Rudbeckia hirta, spring, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

When I traveled to Tishomingo recently, I spent some time taking photos of Black-eyed Susans. In the process, I also found insects eating or nectaring on them.

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Autumn Flatbud Prickly Poppy

By Mia McPherson|October 8th, 2023|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Argemone munita, autumn, bloom, blooming, blossom, desert, fall, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, flowering, foothills, native, Prickly Poppy, sky island mountains, white wildflower, wildflowers|

When I drove out to the West Desert for some peace and solitude three days ago, I was thrilled to spot this Flatbud Prickly Poppy still in bloom.

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Musk Thistle And Bumble Bee In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|August 30th, 2023|Categories: Morgan County, Musk Thistle, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: bloom, blooming, blossom, bumble bee, bumble bees, bumblebees, canyon, Carduus nutans, flowering, insects, mountains, Musk Thistle, nectaring, nonnative, pink wildflowers, summer, thistle, thistles, wildflowers|

This morning, I'm sharing a simple image of a Musk Thistle and a bumblebee that I photographed two days ago in the high country of the Wasatch Mountains.

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American Lotus And Dragonflies

By Mia McPherson|July 18th, 2023|Categories: American Lotus, Eastern Pondhawks, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, American Lotus, aquatic wildflower, bloom, blooming, blossom, dragonflies, dragonfly, Eastern Pondhawk, Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly, Erythemis simplicicollis, fallen, female, flowering, leaves, log, lotus, lotuses, male, Nelumbo lutea, Reeves Slough, slough, spring, wetlands, yellow wildflowers|

Today's post is about American Lotus, dragonflies, and the rich habitat of Reeve's Slough at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Oklahoma.

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Blooming Coreopsis And A Fly

By Mia McPherson|June 7th, 2023|Categories: Trees, Shrubs and Flowers|Tags: blooming, blooms, blossom, bug, Common Green Bottle Fly, coreopsis, flies, flower, fly, garden, insects, yellow|

This morning's coreopsis photo didn't bug me because it had a fly on one of the flowers. In fact the fly didn’t bother me at all.

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Pink Hydrangea In Full Bloom

By Mia McPherson|June 6th, 2023|Categories: Shrubs|Tags: bloom, blooming, blossom, flowering, flowering shrub, garden, hydrangea, hydrangeas, shrub, spring|

Today my post is about a pretty pink Hydrangea in full bloom that I photograped yesterday morning.

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My Problem With Deer Flies

By Mia McPherson|May 25th, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Deer Flies, Utah|Tags: bloom, blooming, blossom, Chrysops, Common Sunflower, deer flies, Deer Fly, flies, flowering, fly, Genus Chrysops, hand, Helianthus annuus, Murder Flies, sunflower, sunflowers, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

My problem with Deer Flies is that while living in Utah I became extremely allergic to their bites. Each time I am bitten by the Deer Flies my reaction is worse.

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From My Heart To Yours ~ Happy Mother’s Day!

By Mia McPherson|May 14th, 2023|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Beardtongue, beardtongues, blooming, blooms, blossom, blue wildflowers, canyon, flowering, Mother's Day, mountains, native, Penstemon, penstemons, summer, wildflowers|

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, to my sister, to my daughter-in-laws, my niece, my aunts, my friends, and all the moms around the globe.

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Blooming Sunflower And Bee

By Mia McPherson|September 28th, 2022|Categories: Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Trees, Shrubs and Flowers, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: bee, bloom, blooming, blossom, close up, Common Sunflower, cultivar, cultivated, flowering, Helianthus annuus, sunflower, sunflowers|

Nowadays, I don't take as many photos of cultivated flowers, but in the fall, I can't help but take pictures of a sunflower field close to the nature center at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Some Recent Butterfly Images

By Mia McPherson|September 6th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Cabbage White Butterflies, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Woodland Skipper Butterflies|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, blossom, butterflies, butterfly, Cabbage White, Cabbage White butterfly, canyon, Clouded Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur butterfly, Colias philodice, Common Sunflower, flowering, forest, Helianthus annuus, leaf, leaves, marsh, mountains, native, Ochlodes sylvanoides, Pieris rapae, resting, roadside, skipper, skippers, sulphur, sulphurs, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, wetlands, wildflowers, Woodland Skipper, Woodland Skipper Butterfly, yellow wildflowers|

This morning I wanted to share a few of my recent butterfly images taken in the marsh at Bear River MBR and high up in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Showy Milkweed Images

By Mia McPherson|July 8th, 2022|Categories: Morgan County, Showy Milkweed, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: ant, ants, Asclepias speciosa, bloom, blooming, blossom, bouquet, canyon, flower buds, flowering, milkweed, milkweeds, mountains, native, pale, pink wildflowers, Showy Milkweed, summer, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

I found some blooming Showy Milkweed in Morgan County high in the Wasatch Mountains two days ago and felt compelled to take images of these wonderful wildflowers.

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Blooming Beardtongue Photos From The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Beardtongue, beardtongues, blooming, blooms, blossom, blue wildflowers, canyon, flowering, Leonard's Beardtongue, Leonard's Beardtongues, mountains, native, Penstemon, Penstemon cyananthus, Penstemon leonardii, penstemons, summer, Wasatch Beardtongues, wildflowers|

Two days ago I focused on wildflowers I found high in the Wasatch Mountains and this morning I am sharing blooming Beardtongue photos from that morning.

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World Bee Day 2022

By Mia McPherson|May 20th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Great Basin Bumble Bees, Long-horned Bees, Midges, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, bees, bloom, blooming, blossom, Bombus centralis, bumble bee, bumble bees, Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee, Helianthus annuus, Long-horned Bee, Longhorn Bee, marsh, midges, native, Tribe Eucerini, wildflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

May 20th is World Bee Day and I am sharing a photo of two native bees this morning. The Great Basin Bumble Bee and the Long-horned Bee. Native bees are important pollinators.

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Happy Mother’s Day 2022

By Mia McPherson|May 8th, 2022|Categories: Lewis’s Flax, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: bloom, blooming, blossom, Blue Flax, blue wildflowers, desert, foothills, Lewis's flax, Linum lewisii, Mother's Day, mountains, native, spring, wildlfowers|

I wanted to wish all moms a Happy Mother's Day with a wildflower that I see blooming at this time of year in northern Utah. This is a blooming Lewis's Flax.

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American Goldfinch Perched on a dried Musk Thistle Blossom & Short Video Clip

By Mia McPherson|July 27th, 2018|Categories: American Goldfinches, Birds, Summit County, Utah, Video, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: American Goldfinch, blossom, Carduus nutans, finch, finches, flew, goldfinch, goldfinches, lift off, male, Musk Thistle, pink wildflowers, Spinus tristis, thistle, video, wildflowers|

Today I am keeping it short and sweet and sharing one photo of a male American Goldfinch perched on a dried Musk Thistle blossom plus a short video clip I took of him as he lifted off and flew away.

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Peachy Daylily – Before my Bird Photography Obsession Took Hold

By Mia McPherson|May 12th, 2017|Categories: Florida, Florida Botanical Gardens, Pinellas County, Trees, Shrubs and Flowers|Tags: blloming, blossom, close up, daylilies, daylily, flora, Florida Botanical Gardens, flowers, garden, peachy, urban|

Last month I was looking through some of my earliest image archives and came across a photo of a peachy-colored Daylily that I had taken while exploring with my friend Patty at the Florida Botanical Gardens

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