Living things are making the most of these beautiful days. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

A Cloudless Sulphur butterfly heads for the tallest cardinal climber at the home of Shirley and Jeff Lavin, Foster.
Julie Shields of Hayes writes, “We had a little visitor this morning!”
Seth Anderson of Moon has a late-blooming dahlia.

Todd Vest found the beauty in a sweet potato blossom.
Reed Lawson of Mathews photographed her first camellia to bloom.
Honeybee on Goldenrod, sent by Cheryl Battle, Bavon.

Red spider lilies are mixed with Black-eyed Susans in Linda Dalgety’s yard in Port Haywood.
“My perky deck,” sent by Page Strickland.
Faye Respress, manager of Stewart’s Tile and Carpet Center in Mathews, sends a photo of a well-tended mandevilla.

Hibiscus in the garden, and impatiens on the deck, sent by Ginger Rowe of Gloucester.

Althea blossom, pink rose, super-tall cosmos and interesting fungus, sent by Martha Thompson Hudgins of Gloucester.
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