It’s the season for unusual mushrooms, basking lizards, big spiders, and other summer scenes. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Ruby-throated hummingbird in Steve Angell’s backyard in Gloucester. Robyn Clark photographed an unusual ruby-throated hummingbird with a golden gorget. Mary Pope’s homegrown tomatoes were headed for BLT sandwiches.

Female garden spider at Holland Point Farm, sent by Elizabeth Roane, Dutton. Bob Waldrop found a giant chicken of the woods mushroom in his woods. Nancy Richardson photographed this two-masted sailing on the York River with a crowd on board.

Evan Van Leeuwen of Gloucester found a friendly lizard at the vegetable garden of Ware Episcopal Church, and an inquisitive box turtle in the wood pile.

Spiderwort, photographed by Cheryl Battle, Bavon. Bees enjoying the phlox at the home of Louise Witherspoon in Port Haywood. Betty Ackerson photographed the July 29 full moon; what’s on the surface?

Views from the hiking tr...