More sunflowers

OK, I couldn't resist posting a few more sunflower pictures.  

A Common Buckeye butterfly ( here) comes in to visit a flower.

It didn't stay long.

I'll follow the sun

It's sunflower time at Dorothea Dix park.  Every year the City of Raleigh plants a field of sunflowers.

People come to enjoy the flowers,

Take selfies

And enjoy the view

When the show is done, the city harvests the flowers and turns them into biofuel for city vehicles.

Sunset again

It's hard to resist taking sunset pictures.  

Weather Bureau Station

The Hatteras Weather Bureau Station is a beautifully restored building housing the Hatteras Welcome center.  ( see here). At one time it housed the scientific equipment used to monitor the weather as well as the people who manned the station.

It's easy to forget that before satellites, someone had to go out on the catwalk to check the weather.

Friends

These two friends were out in the daylight.  One had a hurt back leg.  I think the other one was keeping it company.

Hatteras Island, NC

Coffee break

Mr. Frog sits in front of the Okracoke Coffee Co.  

He's a great advertisement.

Dragonflies again

I am always amazed at the variety and beauty of dragonflies. 

This one is a Wandering Glider (Here) 

This one is an Eastern Pondhawk (here)

These two were buzzing around the beach grass at the edge of the sand dunes near the Hatteras lighthouse.

Don't they have wonderful names?