Picture This!!

Lisa, what a pretty photo. I love the different colours in the rose - the pink on the tips of petals.

Cinco de Mayo

Nancy, the wildflowers are beautiful, especially the purple one!

Thank you ladies. The blue ones are Virginia Bluebells (top two) and I think (not sure ) the bottom ones are called Spring Beauties.

Thanks Joanne. YIKES. That is one big garter snake. One year our school had an assembly and they had this huge yellow snake. Many of the kids were brave and touched the snake. I can't remember what kind it was. Maybe a Boa. I will not intentionally be touching any snake. I have never seen one other than on the ground so I would be freaked seeing one in the bushes. I know there are many snake lovers out there but I am NOT one of them!!!

West of the Cascade Mts where I live in Seattle, almost no snakes and all harmless. East of the Cascades, lots of rattle snakes. In Houston they were fond of saying there were only 5 poisonous snakes in the US and all were native to Houston.

Nancy, that is beautiful!! I hope you had a nice romp.

monarch is stopping by too. But I have not photographed it yet

A Gravenstein apple blossom from my sister's orchard, near Parkdale, Oregon

Beautiful flowers, everyone!

That's a pretty flower, Lisa.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there.

Bandw...that is a lovely flower. Sorry that you are not well.

Thank you ladies. My Mom enjoyed her special card and her special day with my sister and me. I ended up going to urgent care today as I was pretty certain I had a sinus infection. I am on meds now and I do hope this knocks this out as I am really wanting to feel back to normal soon.

The forest preserve that I participate in their photo contests has an Instagram site and one of their naturalists posted this pic of a Northern Water snake I think it was. It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO big and long but it was in the water so you couldn't really see just how big but I wish I could somehow repost it. I hope I never encounter anything like that on my hikes to get photos!!! I get freaked out over tiny little snakes. LOL

SoCalLisa How absolutely lovely! I love all your photos. The card is so special and amazing.

Nancy, I pray you get over your sinus infection very quickly and you feel a lot better soon.

Lisa, what a lovely and special Mother's Day card! It's also very clever.

My twin sister only has days to live and we are going to go and visit her soon. Her liver is failing (from metastatic breast cancer). She is at home and her husband and a palliative care team are looking after her. It's very sad. This has been progressing faster than we expected.