Yep, susan, here is a sunflower and it's bee. This approx. 4x8 spot where DH cleans out the bird feeders onto a weed dumping area out back has yielded a beautiful bunch of sunflowers. Some are at least 8 foot tall.

A cousin recently bought this cast-iron coin bank for my wife.You put the coin in the horses mouth, press the lever and the horse springs over the jump. The coin flies out of its mouth, bounces off the fence, and falls into the hole. My wife saw it and said, The horse is hanging its legs. The rider is hanging on the horse's mouth and her leg is too far back, and after the horse "jumps" the jump the rider looks like she is about to fly right over the horses head and crash into the fence for a possibly fatal injury.

Sabbath7....maybe instead of a camera...software. I manipulated...uuuuh.....brought out the colors your eyes saw, but the camera didn't pick up because it needed more light, either a longer exposure or a + light modification, cloudy day setting or just use Lightroom software. Then if your shutter stays open longer you'll need a tripod. :0) Digital photography is about manipulation, sometimes with an f stop or a filter...or a 300mm lens that cost $6K.....or ....start small....as long as the compositon is good....and it's VERY good as seen here....taken by YOU....then manipulate it.

To correlate with Jemdandy's thread on the Declaration of Independence and freedom, on our trip to Washington DH and I made a point of visiting the Lincoln Memorial. Along with all the other historical details, I was interested to read on Wikipedia that a "popular legend is that Lincoln is shown using sign language to represent his initials, with his left hand shaped to form an "A" and his right hand to form an "L", the president's initials." This is plausible since the sculptor may have wished to pay tribute to "Lincoln for having signed the federal legislation giving Gallaudet University, a university for the deaf, the authority to grant college degrees."