@humphrey
For the most part I got lucky but there were a few shots (the 2 paved pathway shots) I had to wait for people to move out of the shot.

Was it time consuming to get a few of the images without any other people included or were you just lucky?

@humphrey
when I titled that image. It was supposed to be wood worms. I have no idea what type of tree the roots belonged to.

didn't help much except that the leaves are used to make absinthe.

@dystopian
At first I thought you had some left over jaw breakers in the Easter basket.
Those Cowbirds are lazy parents. Always leaving their eggs in someone else's nest to be raised by other birds.
To bad the Cardinals or the cowbird didn't make to hatching.

Hi all, Hey SP!

Great photos as always. Thanks for the OT!

I loved that song from when I was 1-. Absolutely beautiful.

I gotta fly but here is a quick one...

MysDys took this pic. It is the Cardinal nest right outside the kitchen window. Note the egg on the left is much smaller. Also the brown coalesces into a blob at large end, unlike Cardinal eggs where scrawling stays irregular. This is a Brown-headed Cowbird egg. About 25% smaller. They hatch and grow faster, and usually push the other babies out of the nest. Often parasitized nests produce only one Cowbird young.

Worry not, the entire nest was predated, all eggs eaten one morning. Most likely squirrel but Ringtail and other things possible. Mid-morn points to Squirrel. Which are major nest and egg hunters all summer.

Female Cardinals sing. What I did not know was at least this one sang from the nest while incubating all the time. This seems a stupid strategy for remaining concealed at the nest. Surely nest predators learn this. It was asking for it. MysDys said the nest was poorly concealed at best. You shoulda heard what she said about that no good for nuthin' louse of a mate she had...

It was great to be able to observe it all at point blank while it lasted.

Happy trails all!

@snoopydawg
Those are some beautiful Milky Way photos.
Thanks for the link.

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Outstanding pictures of it by numerous photographers. I’d love to be able to take pictures like this while I’m camping, but I just don’t have the patience to because of my pain.

Enjoy.

https://capturetheatlas.com/milky-way-photographer-of-the-year/

@janis b
Thanks for Rosie and the Originals, Janis.

Thank you for your beautiful photos, and music. They are truly angelic. I especially enjoyed the tropical pond area.

@janis b
It may be last but it certainly is not least. Nice view to watch the sun set and the stars appear.

The last of the light today

Be well and enjoy the light in your weekend

@soryang
Nice shot of the double rainbow. I wonder if there will be 2 pots of gold at the end of the rainbows?
Glad to hear your temporary garden site is thriving. Hope the work on your house is done soon and you can get back a normal life.

As usual!

I had written a comment about this picture below which I took earlier this week with my phone, after a heavy storm. It's looking east as the sun is setting in the west. My photography skills are naught, so the picture doesn't do the rainbow justice.

The ubiquitous Florida retention pond is there along with the shadows of the ugly apartment buildings. I saw a bumper sticker earlier today which said, "County government, stop building! You're flooding us out!" Central Florida development is out of control. The horizontal sprawl gives storm runoff nowhere to go.

We have some angel trumpets in the back yard. I think they've very beautiful. Ms So and I moved all her larger potted plants to our friend's home, so we're both a little sore still. I had to rent a trailer for that purpose. I used cash to pay for the rental and it caused all sorts of problems, I won't go into.

We brought some of the smaller potted plants mostly orchids to the back patio here at our temporary location while the home is worked on. That created some biodiversity in an area here sorely lacking. So snakes, birds, frogs, lizards, and bugs have arrived creating a mini-ecosystem on the back porch. Ms. So doesn't like the snakes. I tried to get a photo of the largest one, a king snake, I think, hunting lizards, but didn't get a good one.

@soryang
do those things to us on purpose just to make us look bad.

So my first attempt did load. I had looked for it but couldn't find it. Duh!