I never cease to be amazed at the beauty in nature. I had to blow that picture up and look at it more closely. That’s some orchid!

I’m happy you’re back in business Annie. I had missed checking in for a few days during the holidays and then couldn’t find you. I’m glad it was just a keyboard thing.

Thanks also to salonva (I think) for keeping it going.

I'm able to "like, as it appears that others are, here.

o j

This tenacious little violet popped up in the driveway at our place in PA.

more mysteries on how does it grow/survive... in a dirt road in Australia, seen in 2017

I hit the "like" and it's not added....

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:) Thank you for the beauty this morning...cold and blustery here. The

petunia coming out of the Tarmac made me remember one of my planters

last year......this put itself in there somehow, too. :)

My two "Joy Germs" They give joy to me, that I can share with those around me...it keeps spreading. Had a long 'lap fest' with them yesterday.

igmd-they are so cute!

I wish I had your "lap blanket" today...it is cold and blustery. :) They sure are

sweet.

Passion flowers growing at the place we rented last August. They were so interesting and unusual. People walking by often stopped to take photos of them.

These are their fruits, but these varieties of passion flower, don't produce edible fruit:

These are skeins of yarn (natural, not dyed) that come from my friend's alpacas. Just knowing these sweet animals brings me great joy.

From New Years in St Pete

and a baby elephant

and for murrysmom

my wife comparing hairdos with an alpaca at a fiber farm on Block Island