In Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Gardens at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.

We’ve had soooo much rain the last two days !

When daddy, mama and ex husband traveled to Canada. (border)

First kiss? By an Elementary School in Vancouver BC.

Picture of Seagull in San Diego.

Screenshot from a video I took yesterday.

I agree Annie it's an owl and I believe this is an elephant. From the nursery trip.

lgmd_gaz Great photo, but I had to take and view it right-side-up for my horticultural sanity. :D

gry_falcon, thank you, but I don't understand your comment about right-side-up. LOL

I love little stone creatures. I used to have a hedgehog, but the gardener broke it. He replaced it with this little owl.

lgmd_gaz, Don't know how to explain it other than to show you on the photo, so I hope I am not out of line with the copy. I marked some of what is typically the upward tip growth of the plant in the photo when righted (the sideways stem is not an atypical direction). With the orientation of the photo you posted, the plant's growth originates from top of the photo.

Sunset Garden Books used to publish with a few of the photos inverted, too. While on those pages, it would make my brain screech to a halt and scream "Wait a minute!". Probably most don't notice, because Sunset repeated the error through multiple reprints.

gyr_falcon, I see...I think. The plant is a ground cover Lamium, so it grows in different directions, even lying over itself, quite thick and about 6 inches tall at most. I will have to look at other photos of the plant that I have taken in the past to see how 'helter skelter' it looks in them.

Reminds me of a story about filming a movie -- can't remember which one -- and they were running out of time, having had bad weather. They needed a sunset scene and decided to film a sunrise instead and run the film backward...worked fine until they realized all the birds in the film were flying backward.

Well, the pretty Buckeye butterfly looks better in the first shot IMO, but I see what you mean, gyr-falcon. Sometimes when I’m taking a shot of something like a butterfly in a wild, tangled plant, it’s not always from the direction of the plant’s growth iykwim.

;) I agree the butterfly looks better right side up, in the original post, too.

Doorstop!