Spectacular creations of nature are captured at their best. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Bob Waldrop photographed all these birds in Mathews on Friday. From left, killdeer, spotted sandpiper, ring-billed gulls, laughing gull, great white egret and great blue heron.

Jerusalem artichoke, bee balm, moon flower and spider lily, left to right, from Louise Witherspoon of Port Haywood.

New Guinea impatiens is abundant at the home of Deb Buchanan, Gwynn.

Late blooming sunflowers from Nina Page in Remlik.

Linda Dalgety sent a photo of spider lilies in her yard in Port Haywood.

Judy Moughon of Mathews sent photos of a pot of coleus and impatiens, North Carolina elephant’s foot, wild poinsettia and clematis or virgin’s bower.
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