Walking at the wetlands in the wet weather.....

During one of our rainy day breaks, we were near the wetlands, so we stopped for a brief walk....which got wet when it started raining again.

There were a handful of Canada Geese in the water taking it easy.

....practicing their ballet moves......

 .....exercising their wings.

2-3 on a far bank in the grass.  This one is on guard for the other two.

 I liked the clouds reflecting in the water.

 The little maple trees looks so pretty with their new reddish leaves.

A Mockingbird letting us know that this is "his" territory! 

 Don't know what this plant is, but I liked how it looked.

 New purple leaves on this little tree.

 A Red-winged Blackbird on the observation area railing.

 A Robin up high as we were leaving.

 Mr. Blackbird again.

 A bee on the teasel.

And of course a few turtle shots, although not many were out on the logs. 

 All dressed up in their green duckweed.

I thought this one was a rock at first :-)

 A female dragonfly.....Pondhawk, I believe.

 The Blue Dasher male.

 Tall flowers against the sky and clouds.

 This Fritillary butterfly wanted to lay out nicely for me, but it was on the railing and I'm a bit on the short side, so the angle is odd.

Fungi in the water.

An Amberwing dragonfly on our own pond. 

 And another Blue Dasher, as well.

 This pair of Damselflies was mating and I was having a hard time getting focused on them with the new camera.  I can't seem to get the close-up stuff figured out, so this is good practice. No idea of their name.

 Our double orange lilies along the back of the garage.  I just love these particular lilies and they have so many buds and flowers before they are done.

Had a bit of sunshine yesterday, but still having some rain almost every day.  A really wet year so far!