Welcome to Sunday Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you.

I got my first camera in my early teens a Brownie Starlite. I graduated to a Kodak AI 35mm camera and a few years ago went to a digital camera. I got some great shots with my Canon Power Shot A2000IS. My late brother Mike bought me a Canon Rebel XS digital camera and that is my go to camera now. The nice thing about a digital is you can press that button hundreds of times during your shoot and you are never quite sure what you have until you pull it up on the computer screen.

My favorite pictures are the ones that somehow you weren't planning on but come out great anyway. I call these my accidental photographs. Here are a few of my favorites.

It had been snowing heavily and this was right outside the screen door. The plant was dormant in the winter and became my alien plant monster.

I didn't realize that this Rose of Sharon had a bee inside of it until I pulled the picture up on the computer.

One of the neat things about setting everything to automatic is that you never know what settings the camera is going to choose.

I walking on a Spring day and the leaves covered the sidewalk so I just tilted my camera up to get this shot. I had no idea that the bird that had flown ahead of us had landed.

This was one of those shots where nothing was planned but the clear blue sky and the one bird on the wire came out perfectly.

This is one of my favorite shots. The way the sun hit inside the flower just made it glow.

The nice thing about the close-up button is that it will reveal things you were not aware were there such as the hitchhiker of these mushrooms.

Autumn in the Midwest can bring truly gorgeous pictures. The moon in the sky was a challenge but I pushed the close-up button to its fullest and was rewarded with this photograph.

I love these type of flowers. They are beautiful on their own but sometimes I feel like they are posing to see what kind of picture we can come up with.

This was another picture where I just pushed the close-up button to the fullest and was thrilled with the results.

The close-up button is your friend during the times the bees are busy.

This was another one where I counted on the extreme close-up to give me a great shot.

Right after a rain and before the flowers dry off is a great time to get photographs.

This while a dramatic shot is also sad because of a huge storm the night before had caused lightning that killed several old trees.

One thing I do is check the ground by my feet. Sometimes you can get pictures such as the contrast of an oak leaf and concrete.

We had lots of animals that were around my Mom's house and this one walked around the newly fallen snow.

What made this picture interesting to me was that a small wind was blowing and you could see the pollen of the Rose of Sharon leaving the plant.

I took this picture the day after I lost my Mom. I was walking and just turned the camera to the sky.

The sun is an ally in making memorable photographs.

Clouds are wonderful for giving you that elusive shape and letting you decide latter what the shape reminds you of such as a hand here.

I have just started to receive the first of the many bills from my July hospitalization for pneumonia. Needless to say I can't pay these. Any help you can provide by buying my art and jewelry and scarves would be greatly appreciated.

You can find prints of my artwork and photography on my Fine Arts America account.

You can find my jewelry for sale here.

You can find my scarves for sale here.