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I was out in the garden yesterday afternoon getting a shot of my pokey bee balm, which isn’t doing well this year, and finally blooming. When I turned a bit to the left, this moth was feeding on the dephinium. Of course I took some shots of it! It was hovering all the while, as you can see by the wings.

Read more about hummingbird moths here.

Laura, from Somewhere in NJ but out a challenge to show scrapbooking pages. I have only done it on the computer. Hope that counts. Here is a journal cover I did for my daughter last Christmas.

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We have cedar waxwings everywhere this summer. I usually see a few, but for the first time, they are nesting within sight of my living room window. They are out on their “porch” limb every night. I think that I have figured out why. Look at the chokecherry trees this year. They are loaded! My little camera works well on close ups, but I won’t even show you my efforts at catching a shot of the birds in the tree.
I was reading up on waxwings this morning, and did you know that they not only pass berries back and forth, but also flowers? I would love to see that.

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I ran across this plant last week, and can’t seem to find a name for it. It is about two feet tall, and the flowers look like colored leaves. As you can see, most of the flowers were pink, but a few purples were in the mix.

eyeshaiku

The little one with the beautiful eyes is my sister’s granddaughter. My dad also had those eyes.
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