Here's some background history for you.

Richard Berry

Whether it is a gopher or mole, there is a commercial trap that is fast,easy to use. and is almost 100% effective.

This one really works. It takes a little patient to find the right spot but then it is a done deal.
You want to initially get the starter kit with one trap and the probe. You can get additional traps if needed.
If you have any questions about this trap, call them, they are happy to help.

https://gopherhawk.com/

Commercial Gopher Trap Video

Moles

On Amazon

Mathematics is precise language. Do you realize how much time has been lost sorting this out???

Here are a couple of sites that will give you more info than you probably wished to know.

What is a Lightning Trigger and Why You Need It?

Lightning Trigger

Nice shots.

First one is most probably a Variegated Fritillary.
The other two are definitely Monarchs.

Outstanding shot.

Just recently caught a rerun from the PBS "Nature" Series that I am sure many of you will enjoy.
Here is one link to it. If this one does not work for you, hopefully you can track down another.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees - Season 40, Episode 1

Mother Nature does have her own way of culling out the weak !!!

These were taken with a Canon 5DII & a EF 24-105mm f/4 L.
The second shot is landscaped to accommodate the existing lighting.

Enjoy, Bob

Late Afternoon

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Same Shot at 9pm

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Loved this one

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Very nice work.

'Doc' Edgerton would be proud!

Great series of an exceptional place.

If you have the chance, when the weather is better, I highly recommend going back and shooting in the garden at night. If you approve I will gladly share an example with you.

As a very young lad, I traveled many of the old highways and by-ways of the USA with my folks.
I became acquainted with a slight variation of these limericks.
Most were obtained on the walls of truck stop restrooms and the like.
Still, they were excellent works of poetry showing insight to a different view of everyday life.

Many probably most inappropriate to print here.
A number of authors have made it a point to preserve much of this in a few books for all times sake.
One is available on Amazon. For example:

There was a young man from Grants Pass,
Whose balls were made out of brass.
When they tinkled together,
They played “Stormy Weather,”
and lightning shot out from his A$$.

A few years ago I saw a guy wearing a 'T' shirt that stated,

"I am the Man from Nantucket !!"

In the IT computer world it is referred to as PEBKAC.

"Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair."

Very astute observation Mark.
One of the first things I learned in troubleshooting was isolating various odd occurrences.
Then try to determine if there was a common denominator !!

Some great Dodger history here.


On September 9, 1965, I was at Dodger Stadium with my soon to be wife to enjoy an afternoon of baseball.
I had no idea that I was about to witness history.
Lou Johnson scored the only run in that game but that was not what made history.

It was the game that Sandy Koufax pitched his perfect game.

Obviously this post was done as lighthearted humor about the differences between the sexes.

You, on the other hand, are coming from a much different place.
A place that I and some of us here have been or are currently in.

I lost a wife to her lifelong battle with diabetes. I have wallowed where you are not being able to see a light at the end of the tunnel nor a reason to look for it or go on.

We all grieve at different rates and it takes longer for some of us than others.
Hopefully you will reach a place where you realize that living as a shut-in is not what she would have wanted for you. Start to do things you would have done together and try to do them with a friend once in a while.
When you open your door and your heart you will find that you do have a future.

My counselor really helped me when he explained that life is a journey. We are all on it for some period of time.
He explained that my wife and I had 15 great years together. That was her time and mine was to continue on with new life experiences. No, it did not make any sense at the time but he told me to just keep on keeping on, and it will get better. He gave me a card that said,

"Love makes Time pass,
Time makes Love pass."

You never stop loving them. Let them be your guiding light out of the dark to the next chapter in your life.
I was able to do that and my new wife and I have been together for 36 years.

I truly feel for you. All the best.