Closeups were permitted this week in the animal kingdom. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Rabbit and squirrel, up close and cooperative for Steve Angell to take their photos.

This moth stayed all day on the doorbell at the home of Bill and Joan Wallace, Roanes. Cardinal climber vine from Cheryl Battle of Bavon. These gaillardias don’t need a flower bed to grow lush and full in Frances Blackburn’s Bena yard.

Ginger Rowe’s butterfly weed attracts lots of butterflies. Misty Sunday morning in the front yard of Julie Shields, Hayes....