Post one favorite photo you took (max 1 per day) with some details.

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All my geraniums have stopped blooming. But I got a surprise. This popped out from the hanging basket. I looked it up. It's a Caladium and it comes from tubers so it must be a volunteer.
They are not winter hardy here so I'm going to bring it inside and plant it in the spring.

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@Camper6 I grow caladiums ever Summer. Love them!! Here’s a variation of yours that I’m looking at right now as I type. I’ve tried to bring the inside several times after the summer waned. I wasn’t successful, sadly. They require a higher level of humidity than my house in winter, with the heat running, was able to provide. I’m in Tennessee so it gets cold here. Depending on where you live, you may have more success! 🤞
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@Camper6 I grow caladiums ever Summer. Love them!! Here’s a variation of yours that I’m looking at right now as I type. I’ve tried to bring the inside several times after the summer waned. I wasn’t successful, sadly. They require a higher level of humidity than my house in winter, with the heat running, was able to provide. I’m in Tennessee so it gets cold here. Depending on where you live, you may have more success! 🤞
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It will be a challenge because the humidity in the winter here is very low and it needs a humidifier running 24/7. However I put the plants near the aquarium which has a pump and it keeps the humidity in the area quite healthy.
Some plants are really hard to keep over winter and they have to be treated like annuals and planted every year.
 
Not a beauty shot, but an example of the drag strip. It's tough to pick a favorite because I typically make anywhere from 800-1000 photos a day when out there. Some of those are burst shots to catch that specific moment, like this one:

Old Sch_0028d by Shotglass Photo, on Flickr

You can click through the photo to my "Shotglassphoto" Flickr site if you like. This is not the same site I use for other photos.
 
I fell in a creek like that in the winter once. Broke through the ice. Luckily in the shallow part.

Ha, I grew up right next to a creek similar to the one by me now. As a young boy, me and the other kids were down there all the time: Catching frogs, salamanders, and crabs, and building dams in the summer, and falling through the ice in the winter getting "soakers." In the spring we'd walk maybe a mile downstream and spear suckers that came up from the bay.

It was not deep either, maybe a foot or so at the most. I think my dad was quite happy that he bought that property. :)
 
"Who's there?"

We were treated to a nesting pair of red bellied woodpeckers in our neighbor's tree this year. Never did get a chance to see the young ones, but we could hear them at feeding time! For those keeping track, that's mom on the outside and dad inside. He was excavating the nest at this point.

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Those are beautiful birds. We don't see them that often but you can hear them drilling.
 
Those are beautiful birds. We don't see them that often but you can hear them drilling.
Yes. When we first saw the male we though he was just stopping in every day for food, since this is a large silver maple full of voids and carpenter ants. But he came back day after day, and eventually you could hear the muted tapping but couldn't see him. I knew he had worked his way into the tree but it still didn't dawn on me until the Mrs. showed up. DUH!
 
Those are beautiful birds. We don't see them that often but you can hear them drilling.
Yes. When we first saw the male we though he was just stopping in every day for food, since this is a large silver maple full of voids and carpenter ants. But he came back day after day, and eventually you could hear the muted tapping but couldn't see him. I knew he had worked his way into the tree but it still didn't dawn on me until the Mrs. showed up. DUH!
The instinct to nest and reproduce. It's amazing. There was one woodpecker at our golf course. He was hammering at a tin roof on one of the shelters. You could hear it all over.
 
One of the guys with us had an artificial leg. We wondered if it would freeze up on him. We were ice fishing for trout. It's funny. Our parents would let us do all kinds of stuff.

Yep.

We used to look in the woods for big grape vines and cut the bottom free, then swing on them. We had one big one on a sidehill that swung out over a dip.

After a few weeks the tops would rot up in the treetop and the vine would come down. Some kid (not me) was on this one when it broke. But, as I recall, they don't just suddenly drop, they kinda ease down as all the little vine ends let go but not all together.

We'd be gone for hours, nobody ever got hurt. Parents were probably glad to get us out of the house.
 
Not a beauty shot, but an example of the drag strip. It's tough to pick a favorite because I typically make anywhere from 800-1000 photos a day when out there. Some of those are burst shots to catch that specific moment, like this one:

Old Sch_0028d by Shotglass Photo, on Flickr

You can click through the photo to my "Shotglassphoto" Flickr site if you like. This is not the same site I use for other photos.


Wow! When young, we used to go to the local drags every Saturday night. Great memories.

Still liking fast cars at 70 -- it's an '07 Vette, but I'm not as crazy as I used to be:

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