M - Beautiful views! Congrats on the new toys, you are so lucky! Happy b-day!

Silvia

Love the wide shots....beautiful.

How lucky can you get! Happy Birthday! Mine's Friday!

I have a bunch of canon lenses if you have the kind that you can change. Will trade for something AWESOME!!!!

Happy Birthday, Mark.

What a beautiful garden!! Great shots :)

Oh yeah, I love your new toys! I am sitting here ooing and ahhing over all of your lovely plants. The pictures are enthralling; so much to look at! So I hope that means we can look forward to lots of new and wonderful pictures!

Carol in Jacksonville

A good looking staghorn fern in the middle there. I can't get mine to grow very well.

Oh... my... gah...! I'm jealous of... EVERYTHING!!! I want, I want, I want! I would never leave these areas. From coffee to cocktails, that's where I'd live!

I know, it looks like a paradise, doesn't it? Now I understand how he is able to constantly post gorgeous flower pictures.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but:

Have you thought about taking a class in photography? This is not so much a comment on the above pictures but more a simple suggestion. One of the things my mother did when her husband passed away was to invest in a really nice Nikon as well as macro lens and tripod (she never spent that kind of money on me!). A few months later she took a photography class or two in the Villages and her pictures went from nice pictures, much like the ones above, to framable art. And I'm not kidding, she actually has a few pictures that she had stretched onto canvas and is now hanging on her walls. Everyone who has seen them has wondered where she bought them, never guessing that she took them herself.

Here are are just two of the macro shots she took after her classes:

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You can go to Mark's yard a dozen times and not see everything. I see something different every time I go and wonder how I missed it before.

There are just so many cool plants in one picture! Sooooo jealous!

Sure didn't think anyone could have more plants than I do, but I think you've passed me by a mile.
Love seeing them all,
Hester