This red squirrel has been entertaining us daily for weeks in his efforts to get to the feeders. First he goes up the pole....no good. Then he goes into the shrub on the left...no go, so then he tries the shrub on the right, nope again. So he tries the maple tree behind. That doesn't work either. So it's back to the drawing board. Sooner or later he is going to succeed.

Personally, I don't mind theme breaks--themes are not officially declared anyway. I could be wrong, but I interpreted the daily photo thread to be for posting a photo you want to share that day. But I wasn't here at the inception.

Last night my wife's barn held a fun-day horse show. One of the competitors decided to make it extra-fun, and painted her horse to be a psychedelic rainbow zebra. Here she is riding in the Egg-and-Spoon class. The last rider to drop their egg wins.

I never think to photograph my ferns in a shady bed. Excuse the weeds as I haven't had time to get back to this area since early spring. First one is an Autumn Fern; second one is a new Japanese Painted fern I think last years drought got some of the older ones. And this is just a native fern I transplanted or that came up here, can't recall.