All good photos, but the 1st one is fantastic.

We've just had a brilliant sculpture unveiled on the shore of Half Moon Bay...it's only been there a matter of days yet hundreds of people have been drawn down to the shore to admire it...

I couldn't make my mind up whether it looks better in colour or monochrome...these are 4 of around 200 I've taken already... 😊

I like them all.

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~Sue~

Spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. I hope you all will go out and take some pictures and come back here to share them with us.

A lot of our contributors are very good photographers, and that may put some of you off. But please don't let it. We're just interested in seeing what's happening in your lives through photographs. They don't have to be artist-quality.

So please post. Anything that you photograph yourself is welcome. A trip to the gardens? A hike in the woods? Let's see it!

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~Sue~

Ooops..taken yesterday at a local nature reserve yesterday...

Got a bit carried away there going after the target.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Ooops..taken yesterday at a local nature reserve yesterday...

Fantastic!

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~Sue~

Wonderful.

You need to consider submitting some of your pictures to somewhere like, BBC - England's Big Picture

The honeysuckle in my back yard is blooming. The hummingbirds love the flowers. There used to be a LOT more honeysuckle in the yard. It used to cover the whole back fence between my yard and my neighbor's yard - ooh and it smelled sooooo good - then the idiot neighbor decided to "trim off the dead parts," not realizing that he was killing the live parts by doing so. Oh man he made me angry! But the honeysuckle has survived in the spots he couldn't reach, and it looks like it's coming back in some of the spots where he tried so hard to kill it. These photos are from the part he couldn't reach. I used my iPhone 7 to take these pix so they're really nothing special (imho).









I have several of these popping up in my back yard. It's just a weed, I guess. I don't think I've ever seen it before in my yard. I should note that my back yard is dirt and weeds, almost exclusively. I'd put down some grass seed, but the chickens would eat it all (and probably get sick and/or die thanks to the crap they add to the seed to make it more likely to grow). Is it just me, or do the leaves look like something that might be good in a salad? (No, I don't plan to taste it.)



This rose bush has been doing very well since before I bought this house in 1994. (It was here when I bought the house.) It blooms even during the winter if it's warm enough (and it usually is) and wet enough. Sorry the first one is sideways. It wasn't when I edited it. I'll try to fix it.







And, finally, I've always wanted a (decorative) windmill in my front yard. I recently saw this one online and ordered it. It was, um, "fun" putting it together. I finally got it outside today. It does nothing functional. It just looks good (imho). It does spin with the wind. I have a short video. I'll see if I can upload it somewhere. I live in central Texas so a windmill isn't an unusual decoration to have on one's lawn.

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~Sue~

I am currently uploading my windmill "movie" to my private website. I don't
know if it's going to work, but if you click on this URL, we'll both find out!

http://www.zannpix.com/windmill.mov

At the moment there's still five minutes before it's fully uploaded.
Be patient!

I'm logging off so I won't know if it works until later.

Edit: I didn't log off. It works for me. Hopefully it will work for you.

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~Sue~

Springtime on a busy canal...

Suzie - it works for me to.
Nice to hear the wildlife in the background :-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Here are some photos of the landscaping around our home here in Tennessee. We moved to this house in 2017

These Knockout roses really knock me out


Here is our raised bed garden that we put in last year. This year we have 9 kinds of herbs for salads, roasting and general cooking. We also have Swiss chard, radishes, salad peppers of three colors and green beans.


Here is our new addition to our raised bed gardening efforts. This year I am doing a proper job with tomatoes--Home made cages to discourage deer, birds and squirrels--will water more carefully this year and use fungicide if tomato blight starts to show.


Last Fall we over-seeded our Bermuda lawn with perennial Rye so we would have a green lawn year round. It has now come in think and even --I think that it really looks good.


Our hardwood Maple was slow to come out this Spring--now it has leafed out just fine and looks good in our front lawn.

But how will you get the big tomatoes out through those tiny squares?!!

;-)

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~Sue~

I will snip the vertical wires to make a few 4 x 4 inch square holes which should be adequate for my arm to go in. My wire cutters do this very easily--I had to do this on two vertical sections to weave the cages over the fence poles--pushing every other one in and the other on each cage pulled to bowing out.

My mom lives up in Flower Mound, Texas, a few minutes from my brother's house. It's a three hour drive between there and my house further south, in central Texas. For Mother's Day (US), my brother and I decided to meet to have lunch with mom at a half-way point, which turned out to be Waxahachie, Texas. I arrived a short time before my mom and brother, so I meandered around and took a couple of photos. There were a lot of people meandering around. I'm not really sure why, but I found out the area is called "Historic Downtown Waxahachie," so maybe this is a touristy place for a day trip.

The first thing I noticed was the fabulous old courthouse. (If you look up Texas county courthouses, you'll see that we have a lot of very decorative old county courthouses in Texas.) By the way, Waxahachie is in Ellis County.


This is the NEW courthouse. I like the old one much more.


Not far from the old courthouse this mural was painted on the side of a building.


I'm not exactly sure what this represents, but it has a depiction of plays painted on it, so maybe there was a theater nearby. The heart was about four or five feet high. It was across the street from the restaurant where we ate.


Here's another photo of the old courthouse but this one has a classic car in the forefront, if you're interested in that sort of thing. I just happened to snap the pic as it was rolling by.

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~Sue~

Love seeing other places by our Setizen siblings.

Lovely clarity and light in your photos Suzie-Q.

(I'm guessing a phone \ wide angle was used.)

Love architectural and cultural objects from places I might never get to see.

Thanks Suzie-Q

Thank you, Twosheds.

cRunchy, I used my iPhone 7.

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~Sue~

I have an unidentified plant in my back yard that I really like. This is what it looks like now. It's about three feet high with green leaves and flowers. Later the leaves (or some of the leaves) will turn red and the flowers will become berries. Iirc, the berries are red. Do any of you know what kind of plant it is? I suspect it was planted by one of the birds that visited my yard, iykwim! It's been growing for a few years.

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~Sue~

I bet that it is a Japanese Honeysuckle

Maybe it's a miniglobe honeysuckle?
From what I've read they get to 3' tall and wide.
http://search.eaglelakenurseries.com/Content/Images/Photos/A089-09.jpg

No, that's not it. I have that honeysuckle along parts of my back fence and there's a big difference. But thanks for playing.

(Have a look at this post: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82358&postid=1991738#1991738 )

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~Sue~

I bet that it is a Japanese Honeysuckle

Read the message I posted just before this one.

The unidentified plant is a bush, not a vine.

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~Sue~