Have you taken a good picture lately? Please share!
Time for another fun picture topic!
Kitchen Table has a daily picture thread so I thought I do just one, it doesn't have to be daily at all. And the picture doesn't have to be that great either. :)
I'd been neglecting my Four o'Clocks all summer because they grow like weeds. Yesterday I noticed they were drooping and barely flowering so I got busy and soaked them. Last night when I checked on them and they were sitting pretty with a few blooms.
We have two types of White-lined Sphinx Moth's, but I never knew they had pink on them. I see them all the time in the summer and the pictures I've taken were the kind that are mostly brown, which I thought this one was until I enlarged it.
I also had no idea how long their tongues are until I looked at this next picture. I hope you can make the picture bigger to see it. They're so long the moths keep them tucked under their "chin" when not using it.
The tongue is burgundy in color, and it's curled. I brightened the picture so the tongue could be seen.
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3katz4me
5 years agoSome nature photos from around our cabin. From my morning walk yesterday, one with three monarch caterpillars on a Marsh Milkweed from last weekend and Lupine from earlier this spring.
dedtired
5 years agoSo many pretty pictures. Here is my garden chair with a bowl of succulents, mostly. There are also a little hosta and a gomphrena. I pass this as I walk from my car to the kitchen door and it always makes me smile
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5 years agoWe just returned from a week in Maine and NH. The weather didn't really cooperate, it was rainy, overcast and grossly humid much of the time we were away (remember my thread on the humidity and my hair? I resembled an alpaca most of the week.). This was taken from our 'harbour view' room in Camden, ME.
Bunny
5 years agoBunny
5 years agoZephyr bellies up to the bar. If it weren't for the cats, nobody would sit on these dumb stools.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoChimboya Glacier, La Raya, Peru
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Tomas, Aymara potato farmer, squeezing water from potatoes prior to natural drying/freezing for preservation
Machu Picchu - view from Sun Gate
party_music50
5 years ago
DLM2000-GW
5 years agoRainbow over our meadow and solar towers. With afternoon showers we have frequent rainbows so I always know where to look.
party_music50
5 years agoHere's a fun one! My phone generally takes lousy photos, but these last bunches are coming out nicely. Maybe it was the operator. lol! I always grow lots of extra dill and parsley for these guys... it seems like they can devour an entire plant in just a day.
runninginplace
5 years agoMy view while listening to a blues band at a Florida Keys ocean side restaurant last week
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoTaken this morning in my side yard. Very unusual weather for Missouri in July - it was really foggy this morning and only 60 degrees. Hosta Liberty and hydrangea Limelight. And the hosta in the foreground is Blue Vision.
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5 years agoReally enjoying the photos!
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI forgot about these. I just happened to catch some cool light in our entryway.
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5 years agoWe are still on vacation. My husband look these. I think he's got a good eye.
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Faron79
5 years ago
Wish they were OUR roses, but these bunches were in the Downtown Mpls Target this summer! GORGEOUS! 2nd pic is our 20+ y/o Maple in our backyard last mid-Oct.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoGorgeous photos! I wish I was at the NE Aquarium right now... it looks so cool!!!
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artemis_ma
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Susan Drake
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5 years agoben franklin bridge in Philly... see the train ??
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5 years agoMy daughter took this picture, so it really doesn’t meet the subject line, but I thought technically it was a such a good photograph (light, sharpness, composition).
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