Milkweed

Milkweed flowers.

Blueberries

All shot with my macro lens.




Happy 21st Anniversary to my brother Jim and his beautiful wife Terry!

Raspberries and Blueberries

Berries I picked last week. They made delicious pies.

All Soul's Chapel

This is the 1912 All Soul's Chapel, located at Poland Spring Preservation Park. I posted a photo of it back in January (chapel). The park is also where the original spring house for Poland Spring water is located (picture of that is here: source )








Also located on the grounds is the Maine State Building, which you can see on the right in this photo. It was built for the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair and moved here.
The top of the Maine State Building:

Groucho Barx

I was going to stop with the orange flowers, but then I edited a couple more day lily photos that I liked.


For variety, here's a photo of Baxter doing his Groucho Marx impression:

I love orange flowers

What's this? More orange flowers? No way!

More orange flowers

Continuing on with my orange flower theme...

Day Lilies

I love, love, love, the color of day lilies and taking macro photos of their centers with the rich orange of the petals as background.

Orange flower

This looks like a poppy to me, but I never saw the front side of it, so I'm not sure.

Raspberries

I picked these raspberries Tuesday.

Wild columbine

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE MOTHER-IN-LAW, GEORGIE!!!

I wrote down what kind of flower this is somewhere back when I took the photo, but I can't remember where. (Edited to add: it's wild columbine.)

Butterfly

According to my Audubon field guide, this is a silver-bordered fritillary on (what I think is) Canada thistle.

Lewiston

The building on the right is the one that burned the other day.

Black and white version.

Bird of the Day

Female rose-breasted grosbeak.

Scenes from my bird feeder, part 9 million and one

Still not a great photo of an indigo bunting (and a goldfinch) but better than the one I previously posted. Spotting him gives me birdwatcher's high.

Look at 'em all sharing the feeders. Makes me want to sing "We Are The World." Two goldfinches, a chickadee, and a female rose-breasted grosbeak.

Back to the Falls

It's not exactly a clear mountain stream.

Love the Sox

As a matter of fact, I do.

As I mentioned, Chris and I went to the Red Sox game Sunday, and there was a cool sky writer.

This is the view from our seats in a right field roof box:
These guys in front of us were obviously brothers. I loved their matching bald heads so much I just had to take a picture. They left the game early, and one of their wives rolled her eyes and said, "It's past their bedtime." It was 4:00. Ha!
Chris. I heart him.
Now that's just unnecessary.

Another shot of the falls

Another shot of Great Falls, looking at Lewiston, ME from the Auburn side.

Great Falls

Great Falls from the Auburn side.


Uncle John, Chris and I went to the game and left the kids at home. We were up in a right field roof box. I agree it was a good game--I've never been to a game with a complete game pitched before.

Dahlia closeup

We have two tickets to today's (Sunday) Red Sox game, and we're still deciding which two of us are going.

Zinnia bud

I've posted several photos of my pink zinnia plant, and I'm glad I shot photos when I did because the rain and wind knocked all the blooms off. I was hopeful when I spotted this bud, but so far I haven't had any new blooms. I like the layers of the bud (it reminds me of an artichoke) and the black tips.

Raindrops on clover

Mini Roses

The worst-taken-care-of rose bush in America lives in front of my house, and despite its neglect, it blooms like crazy every year.

Raindrops keep falling on my head

Well, we had a couple of sunny days.

White Flower

Back to flower shots.

Fireworks

Fireworks photos are hard. How am I supposed to learn to take good photos when I only get to practice once a year? ha ha