GREAT pictures today!!! Moni, I've mostly seen those plants as spreading bush-types. Yours is huge! And you look fantastic, btw. Bigack, I've never seen nor heard of your plant. It's gorgeous. Glenda, love that pic. I love, love tropical plants. Awww Carol. That's so sweet. Wild sunflowers Kat? Cool. Love the cats (of course) and even the lizard is neat.

Thank you...yes he is. And a pain in the keester when I am outside. Always around my feet, in my clothes basket, laying right where I want to plant. hehe! His name is Missy. The kids named him that before we found out that she was a he. lol! He doesn't care. He was a stray after a big storm. Put out posters, called the radio station. Nobody claimed him. He is a beauty! MonaRae

I am in the room and can hear you all, y'know? I did not kill the snake. I was taking a walk and came across it, quite dead in the road. I didn't know what kind of snake it was so I took a pic hoping to identify it. I did. It was an Eastern Milk Snake. It was quite lovely with almost iridescent metallic copper tones in it's pattern. I'm glad some are willing to rescue wounded animals, but I assure you, this poor snake was quite beyond rescue by the time I found him. Most likely it won't be there by tomorrow a.m. as some scavenger will enjoy recycling it. So it will exist only in its current state for a short time, and captured on camera. I was sorry to see it killed, glad it died so quickly as opposed to in terror as most animals die, and glad that I was able to see it as it's probably the only way I'd ever get the chance. In all my years of walking, it's rare for me to come across any snake. I'm sorry some of you find this image of death upsetting. Sometimes images, like life, can be upsetting. (Yesterday I posted a picture of a weed with a dead blossom which didn't seem to provoke the same reaction.) Death happens. IAC, the image was not to celebrate the death, but the beauty of what once was and the chance I had to see it.

I am loving all the church windows. My town has an abundance of old large churches with stained glass windows that are in need of serious refurbishing/cleaning. If I ever win the lottery, that is a project I would take on. I would love to see those windows restored to their original beauty. I have a dragonfly... it brought it's own tooth pick to the party.