More "Never More" and More

I didn't realize when I was taking the photos of the crow last week that I had at some point put the camera in video mode. This is my husband's camera and new to me so I have been experimenting with it a little.

Short but interesting, I think. That's a dog barking in the background and the little noise at the end that sounds like a child is actually Bailey at the patio screen door, complaining because he wants to be outside -- or he didn't like the crow.

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This was another surprise. We received this Amaryllis as a gift several years ago. It was in a pot and the kind that you watch as it grows about an inch a day until it blooms with a magnificent flower.

Barry planted it in the back yard after it had finished flowering and now, here it is three or four years later blooming once again. We knew it was still alive because the leaves come up every year, but this is the first time we have had a flower.

This is an old drawing of one of the Twin Inns, now known as the Ocean House. There were two of them once upon a time, one on either side of the road, across from one another. They each had a large statue of a rooster outside. Unfortunately, as I understand it, one of the inns burned down. The one left standing has been renovated and redecorated. It is beautiful. This is where Son #1 took me for Brunch on Mothers day. An OUTSTANDING brunch.

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I decided to try out the macro focus of 'my' camera on a couple of the roses that came from Son #2 for Mother's Day. They came out pretty well. I have not done any manipulating of them.

I don't know if it's my imagination, but it always seems that photos of red flowers just don't come out as brilliant as they really are. Any way they are still as fresh as they were when I received them on Friday. Beautiful!