Bob Waldrop photographed of young yellow-crowned night herons which recently left the nest at Bavon, learning to find food. A few good rainshowers and all the parched plants and animals are suddenly making beautiful poses again. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Tina Minor of Gwynn’s Island is enjoying the blooms in her first wildflower garden. A passion flower in the garden of Cathy Linchner of Hayes. Rose of Sharon in full bloom, sent by Karen Borja of Gloucester.

Bonnie Veaner of Hayes said this “horrifying, monstrous spider” made a tube web the size of a toilet paper tube. Deer eating fallen seed under the bird feeder at the home of John Hudgins in New Point. Swallowtail butterfly on lantana, sent by Cheryl Battle of Bavon.

Bob Waldrop got really up close, perhaps with a lens, to a skunk strutting around during the day. “We have turkeys all over the area,” said Bob Waldrop of Gloucester....