What a delightful surprise this morning. Well, actually not really a surprise, but after almost a whole week of fog, drizzle, rain, and no sunshine – there it was, the sun was out creating lovely shadows all over the mountain!

I grabbed my dear camera and the two of us roamed with thoughts of capturing evidence of the brilliant sun and its shadows.

I got many pictures, and this is one, with another surprise. I had no idea Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) bloomed in the autumn, but sure enough there it was, one bloom for this morning and several buds waiting for their turn. And if you look carefully, on the right side of the bloom, a tiny insect, a Flower Fly (Syrphidae) having breakfast of nectar and pollen.

Hooray for sunshine!

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