Uncommonly beautiful

It's really not fair that such a beautiful butterfly would be called a "Common Buckeye."  I get the eye part, but it doesn't seem very common.

 

Fall

 Fall is sneaking in.  The first trees are turning.

Busy lake

On one of the last warm days of summer, it seemed like everyone was out on the lake, busily boating,

and quietly fishing.

 

Sunbathing

 I took this a few weeks ago before the hummingbirds all left on their migration.  It looks like the bird is hurt, but it's sunbathing.  They lie on the ground with their wings out looking dead in the hot sun.  Then they just get up and fly away.  We've seen other birds-robins, cardinals, brown thrashers doing this but this was the only time we saw a little hummingbird sunbathing.

Arrow leaf

 

This little leaf was growing all by itself in the leaf litter.  It's called Arrowleaf (obviously),  Little Brown Jug (because it's flower looks like...a little brown jug)  and Wild Ginger (which it is not, and as it turns out, is POISONOUS  here)  All that in a little leaf.

Who are you?

 I can't seem to find out the name of this shrub, but it's blooming quietly right now.

Now you see him...

 Even when I knew where he was, it was hard to spot him.  He could be a Cricket frog, (here) or not.