Wonderful photos, as always. :-)

What a gorgeous place! And wonderful photos of it.

Pretty set!

What a beautiful set of photos. I particularly like the bridge and the bird parent with the 'do'. :-D

What a beautiful waterfall, walkway, park!

What beautiful scenery. :-)

Here's another one of those nondescript little gray/brown moths -- and when you get up close, you discover they have a golden sheen to their feathers and fringe. The size is right for the Small Engrailed moth -- just a hairsbreadth over an inch. But only one other person has posted a picture of one in Nebraska on the Moth Photographers' Group, and that, on the border between Nebraska and Iowa. I took this shot about smack-dab in the middle of Nebraska.

If anybody can give me a surer identification, I'd be pleased.

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Thank you, Carol, Rob, and phlash46! :-)

Thanks for the thumbs-up, Rick. I need to research a few more species of wasps we have here; I don't recognize some of them. On any given sunny afternoon, there will be at least half a dozen to ten types of wasps or yellow jackets, and a dozen species of bees from humongous bumblebees to tiny sweat bees, all over the Autumn Joy sedum and the white-blooming hostas. Add a few dozen kinds of butterflies and moths, including nasty little borers, and all the way up to white-lined Sphinx moths, along with ruby-throated hummingbirds -- and it's like running the gauntlet, attempting to walk along our sidewalk! The thicker the flowers, the greater the number of unidentified insects. :-)

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But it's not! It's right smack-dab in the middle of the continent, in Middle Cornland! -- that's Neeebrasky. LOL
Maybe you'd like to come and collect the three-foot-in-circumference wolf spider that escaped behind my stove today? (Welllll... perhaps I exaggerate. But he was biiiiiiiiiiig.)

Female Four-toothed Mason Wasp (Monobia quadridens) on Autumn Joy sedum: http://bugguide.net/node/view/5345

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Not totally sharp, but at least you can see where he gets the moniker, 'Four-toothed'. :-)

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Here's a poor little house wren that Teensy, who moonlights as a sweet little housecat, brought into the house. I rescued it, took it outside, held it for a while until it got its wits about it again, and finally, after about ten minutes, it gathered itself together and flew into the lilac bush. I couldn't see any wounds on it; perhaps it will survive.

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Thanks, Sue! :-)

Thank you Earnest and Photosmoke!