Bruce Dean (Puchinpappy)'s photos

For Macro Mondays: Macro in black and white. Red Admiral Butterfly Colour version in the note.

Red Admiral Butterfly Black and White version in the note.

This butterfly does not require a plastic straw. It comes with its own angled proboscis to suck up some nectar. A Red Admiral Butterfly.

Monday Macro: Old and New An old hand cranked drill and a modern battery operated hand drill. Full picture in note.

An old hand-crank drill and a modern battery operated drill.

Saturday Self:challenge: Outside at night.

It was not a great shot like you are used to seeing by now but at least I caught it before it left after many cloudy nights. I was happy to get it no matter the quality. I could not find it over our light-polluted city but after taking some wider shots I found it and closed in to try to get a better image. This is about the best I could do. Black and white version in the note.

It was not a great shot like you are used to seeing by now but at least I caught it before it left after many cloudy nights. I was happy to get it no matter the quality. I could not find it over our light-polluted city but after taking some wider shots I found it and closed in to try to get a better image. This is about the best I could do.

Our church met for the first time, since the COVID shut everything down, a couple of weeks ago. We met outside in a park space. It was a bring your own pew day.

Stalky little fellow.

Saturday Self-challenge: Guilty Pleasures I have two guilty pleasures to reference this week. TV and food. I have to confess that one of our guilty pleasures is watching the Great British Bake Off. We have followed a few seasons since discovering it on TV. We even have a Canadian version of the show. www.cbc.ca/life/greatcanadianbakingshow These cupcakes are made by a friend in Calgary and she drops some off when she comes up for a visit. She is particularly skilled at homemade gluten-free items. These are the cupcakes she makes for me, as my wife gets all the gluten-free stuff, which is excellent. These cupcakes have cream cheese, chocolate chunks, and pieces of Carmine Jewel cherries she harvests from her friend's yard. We always feel special which overcomes the guilt.

Same bird as my last photo.

It is always exciting to make the acquaintance of a new bird. Here is a White-throated Sparrow. Notice the yellow over its eyes.

Chickakoo Lake Recreation Area, Alberta, Canada.

This tiny frog was keeping an eye on me.

Saturday Self-challenge: Take a picture in which something is obviously missing. So it is a picture of a certain thing that is not pictured. It must be obvious that something is missing. Sight and Sound: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Miserable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=POvsvbc1yC8 Francais: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SGKFuOP1NQ German: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOP_sPpi3ps Dutch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJJId8gSnU

These two Pine Siskins were fluttering for position at the free buffet at the window feeder. In the past few days we have been inundated with dozens of these birds at a time. All the feeders are full of these birds.