We named her "Toto"

For those that didn't know we lost our other Toto in a car accident August 22.  At the time we thought it best not to replace him.  Well, when I saw four little Rat Terrier puppies on craigslist yesterday that looked just like Toto, we had to get one!  We decided to also name her Toto, like the dog on the Wizard of Oz.  Did you know that the Wizard of Oz Toto was a female?  I didn't know that or we wouldn't have named our other Toto that name.  Meet Toto our baby girl puppy!  She is 10 weeks old and looks like she will fit perfectly into our family.  Charlie is enjoying her now though it was an adjustment for both of them the first day as you can see by the images below.  Toto will probably outgrow Charlie as she is a larger Rat Terrier and has the paws to show for it!

Autumn flowers attract pretty moths and butterflies

This image below is the dried part of a blue wild-indigo wildflower.  I think this part of the flower looks ugly when in bloom, but like it dried and photographed at sunset!

This dried ironweed wildflower took on a pastel hue with their hairy seed pods.  They are normally purple and can take over a country field.

I like the teal-colored, out-of-focus background on this dried purple coneflower taken with my macro lens!

These Hedge-hog prickly-poppy wilflowers bloom late in the year and its name fits it perfectly! Prickly!!!!!

Another late bloomer is the dotted gayfeather wildflowers which attracted this silver-spotted skipper moth.  I read that these moths almost never visit yellow flowers but I caught them in the rare act on the second image below on some yellow goldenrod.

The painted lady butterflies were very much in abundance this past season.  They seemed to be everywhere when driving along our country road.  Here's one on a dried thistle wildflower.