Summer Outtakes

Without the Empire Pass this year, I am not getting to the beach as often as last year. I am stealing the EZ-pass to go, however.
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This was some mushroom. I wanted to buy it and sit on it with a hookah.ย IMG_2811

The butterfly bush started getting some action. This huge Stryper butterfly was amazing to watch feasting on that sweet, sweet nectar.IMG_2854

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A then (May 7) & now picture of the sunflowers. Though some have been trampled by, I suspect, a rambunctious family of raccoons that enter the backyard by jumping the fenceย behind the sunflowers, proceeding to the cat bowls on the porch, a few are sturdy and high.ย IMG_2987

No blooms yet, though I can see things are happening!IMG_2975

Tomatoes getting ripe already.ย IMG_2983

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