I was taking nature pix in the yard, and then it happened

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18. No, not trash at all. You know it's related to the marsh mallow plant

I bet you didn't know that marshmallow grows on trees. I kid- but it is related to a plant of the mallow family and yeah, in mid to late summer they have beautiful flowers and come in several different colors. Now, the purple coneflowers some might think of as more of a weed, but as recently as last week I saw a humming bird flitting in them. I thought it was a big dragon fly at first but once it hovered for a few seconds I realized it was a bird.

I've seen a couple of what is normally rare creatures recently in my yard. I had a grey frog on my deck one day and a couple of months ago, there was an owl sitting on the railing one day. There's also a little yellow bird with black wings that flits around the yard once in a while that I don't know what it is. Heck, even a pair of mallards nested along the side of my driveway recently one spring. But yeah, when ever I see a humming bird- it has always been in my rose of sharon or in my coneflowers.