We love the continuing beauty of our area. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net, and be patient. We have a bit of a backlog and want to use all we can.

Samantha Barber snapped these at her home near Ware Academy.

Snail on an Elephant Ear, taken by Kathy Dumas of Gloucester.

This lovely flower stays beautiful all day in the yard of Rich and Patty Emery, Gloucester C.H.

Lewis Hubbard’s Camellia sasanqua “Autumn Delight.”

A tiny bee finds a meal in a waxed begonia blossom at the home of Martha Thompson Hudgins, Gloucester.

June James of Bena was surprised to find this crocus.

Hibiscus blooming on balcony of Kandy Lawson at Dockside Condos, Gloucester Point.

Maxine Hudgins of Mathews enjoys her Mother’s Day gift of euphorbia that is still blooming, and a lemon tree that is producing.

Elephant Ear plants in Phyllis Robins’s flower garden in Gloucester.

Pyracantha and lantana at the McNeil home in Harcum.

Coleus and impatiens make a pretty splash of ...