Four images after Irene visited

Hurricane Irene came and went this weekend. Overall, the house faired pretty well and the trees made it through without much damage. My butterfly bushes, however, didn't do so well.

The winds knocked them all over. But it was nothing a little hard work couldn't rectify. Here's hoping there was no permanent damage.

After the landscaping work, I took Meg and CJ to Great Falls, where the water was high but not as ridiculously excessive as you would expect after a major hurricane passes through. Of interest was a great blue heron that I captured with my new lens:

I'm not 100% certain it was a heron, and will try to find time to confirm later today...