Gorgeous photos as always. Love your little bird Taigen. Oh, Taigen, is DH is playing at the Caseley Park Summer Concert Series and then in PEI; in July with a Blue Rodeo tribute band called Blue Radio. Do you live near Moncton?

Enduring mosquito bites and the heat, I was able to get really close to this hummer. Today, she was around for a long while. As I was taking photos of her, I found out that she was actually guarding "her" feeder from another hummingbird. Every time, the other hummer got near, she would chase him away. I didn't have time to grab the right lens, the external flash nor the tripod. Fortunately, the photos turned out alright.

A time exposure of the full moon a few nights ago with the old windmill in the foreground. Ron

I thought that your heirloom tomatoes were being a bit uppity, "stuck up", shall we say, maire cate? ... but it appears that they are not attached to/sitting on ... a wall ... after all. ___________________________ How some folks can get a Dollar's worth of charitable value for 60 - 50 cents. In our area, many of the grocery stores have a box by the exit door for contributions to go to the Food Bank. If you buy a dollar's worth of food, you choose what to buy, which might not be high priority for the Food Bank people, and you paid a Dollar.. A couple of times a year, several grocery stores let you give money at checkout to support a charity, so if you give them about 80 cents, the charity chooses what they need most and they get it wholesale ... and the store gets the credit for a charitable contribution. If you visit the charity and give them the 80 cents, the same deal applies ... and you get that precious receipt, so if you're in 25% tax bracket, your after-tax cost goes down 20 cents to 60 cents, and if you're in a higher bracket, even lower. --------------------------------------- Plus, in Canada, if you transfer stock or mutual funds to a charity, you get a receipt for the full amount ... and you avoid paying tax on the capital gain, which usually runs at regular tax rate on 50% of the gain. If you transfer a stock that cost you a bit over 4 Bucks, quite a few years ago, and now can be sold for over $100., the tax saving on that 50 bucks or so of taxable gain is substantial. (Dividends went from 10 - 12 cents to $5.76 per year - at low tax rate). Most charities don't want to get a large amount, then pass most of it on to a dozen or so others, but the local Community Foundation or United Way have done so for me. ole joyfuelled