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One of my least favorite visitors

Just a couple taken while waiting for the birds to settle Arctotus hybridus Common geranium

A few more snaps at lunch time Our pitcher plant, which seems quite happy and full of bugs Begonia and Crown of Thorns

One more orchid spray Then just outside the house, Thevetia thevetioides

Poking around the greenhouse today and found a few orchids blooming all with 18-55, f5.6, ISO 100

Forgot one -- Pacific Coast iris

A lunch time visitor, enjoying a peanut M & M

Just had my walk around 55-200, but the bees were busy on a big dendronecon hartfordii coming in for a landing getting busy

And a few more cactus with polinator a euphorbia and a dendromecon harfordii

A little time to kill at the local arboretum today Spathodea campanulta Waxy orchid tree (can't remember the name) Dalechampia dioscoreifolia

A couple of vines putting on a show today Pyrostegia venusta living up to its common name, the Flaming Trumpet Vine and Old-man's Beard (clematis ligusticifolia) a favorite withour butterflys

Not a great night to shoot -- dull and misty, but not a complete loss 200mm, f5.6, 1/500, ISO100

Lovely tulips this year (sorry -- wrong image)

I have no idea what this is, but it was very small and very cool

Still a bit of brightness heading into winter

This is better, thanks, but the mist is rising, so will try further on the morrow 1/320, f11

I keep trying 200mm, 1/50, f5.6, ISO100

Sticky monkey flower (Mimulus hybridus)

Some late flowers on my Lepechinia fragrans, which has been blooming a long time this year