Another shot of the begonia

 I just cannot quit taking pictures...maybe because I feel like I have yet to capture the real beauty.

Little friend...

This is from 2022....she was coming regular till a neighbor had a lot of work done which included sawing and hammering.  I never saw her again...
 

From the back yard

 How appropriate that this flew over the neighborhood today...this is just a tiny cropped portion of the pic and I have fiddled with it trying to make it clear.  It was so high up, and in front of clouds a big lot of the time.  I did not think I was ever going to get it half focused.  And it was not so much the focus that made it blurred, it was me shaking.

Smile!

 I have posted this before and suppose I will post it again someday.  I did not know that grasshoppers looked like this till I took this picture.

July 2015

  And older photo...taken 9 yrs ago.  I loved having sunflowers and watching the birds on them.  They were right outside our dining room window...maybe 6 or 8 feet away.

Ready for one

I wish I had this tomato now...and about a dozen more just like it.  
 

In the neighborhood today

Our daughter was mowing the yard and sent a text that it was hunting again...I grabbed my camera and got a couple half decent shots.  We have seen it three times now.  We are pretty sure it is an Osprey.  Anyone that knows for sure either way, I am open to your idea.  
 

I was wrong!

 This and the previous post of a rose are from the same rose bush, but they are not the Oso Easy Italian Ice.  I thought my daughter had said they were all the same rose, but these roses out back are a different variety.  But they do change color.  They are supposed to be coral colored and stay that way about a day and then change to the more pink color.   Right now, due to some heavy rain the past day or two, there are a lot of petals on the ground.

Heading out to work...

I need to find the original of this and see if I can count how many horses there actually are.  This was taken in Parke County, Indiana.
 

Oso Easy Italian Ice Rose

 The title is not a mistake in spelling...our daughter has 5 or 6 of these roses, this 'color'...I say 'color' that way because the roses change how they look.  I am not sure if it is the age of the flowers, the amount of sunshine/cloudy days they have.  I have not even tried to find the reason.  But the roses change how they look almost daily.    

Just a few turtles...

 I am again digging through the archives...this has been posted before.  I love to find turtle on logs, soaking up the sun.

Poised for flight...

 Taken several years go...with a little Canon Powershot SX700 HS

Hollyhock

 This is a shot from 2017...I love hollyhocks but have only raised them a couple years.

From last fall

 This was just a quick snap with my phone as I was leaving one morning...I love seeing spiderwebs with dew but never seem to get a real good shot.

From 2023

 One of the last shots I have taken of the moon...not my greatest shot, yet there is something about it that I like...