A face only a mama could love........ Not even sure about that......

We were traveling from St. Louis Monday night when this beautiful full moon came up. We decided to swing over to the river at Cape Girardeau to try to get a picture of the Mississippi River bridge with the moon in it. This is what we captured.

Amazing landscapes.

He looks like he is morphing.............. Fun photos.

Beautiful!!!!

Number 3 for sure. Love it!

My husband has a flower garden next to our yard swing and we plant all kinds of different flowers so there are some blooming all summer long. The butterflies are plentiful, as well as bees and hummingbirds. We also have bird feeders which provide us with summertime photo ops. We enjoy the migrating birds that come thru our yard each year. There is one particular bird, a red breasted grosbeak that appears within the same two day period each year and hangs around about 2 or 3 weeks.

We put some carrot tops, some drops of water and also, by my granddaughter's teacher's advice, we put some drops of nectar like the hummingbirds drink. We didn't have to feed him long though. When we found him, he was eating like crazy on the carrot plants. We put him in the big plastic jar and by the next day he was hanging upside down from the sticks we put in the jar, making the crystalis. He was ready for the change. I thought he had died but after about two weeks one morning my husband woke me up to show me the huge butterfly that had emerged.

The butterfly hung around for a while after being released. We knew him from the others because he seemed unusually friendly and wasn't afraid of us like the other butterflies.

We watch our granddaughters in the summer while the parents are at work. Last summer we found a beautiful caterpillar in the garden. We brought it in and placed it in a plastic container where it transformed itself into a butterfly. It was fun watching it daily. I put four pictures into a collage showing the different stages we saw from caterpillar to release. Exciting project to do with the kids.

Ohhh I love it!

Granny wants to hug her...... Sweet face.

Very cool. Love them.

That goes for snowmen too.... A few years back we decided to go around town after a big snow and take pictures of snowmen kids had built. At one house the guy got in his car and chased us down and asked why we were taking pictures of his house. Have hated snowmen ever since..... Your pictures are great.

Awwwww that is amazing.