Summertime is really putting on a show; please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Black and yellow: a dominant theme in Cheryl Battle’s photos this week: swallowtail butterflies on zinnia, zipper garden spider, swallowtail caterpillars finish off the dill.

Cherie Cook of Mathews sent her happy sunflower.

Amy Sparks-Morgan said, “We had a great surprise Saturday when 36 white pelicans landed by our boat in Milford Haven!”

Shelf Fungi growing in the woods at the home of Martha and Casey Frame of Cobbs Creek.

Amazing butterfly engaged with Lantana at Scott and Mari Gibbs’s home at North.

Ben Higgins saw this spider in his yard; sent in by Sharon Harris.

Hummingbird moth enjoying a zinnia; sent by Martha Thompson Hudgins of Gloucester.

Debbie Hunley of Moon sent this photo of a hibiscus.

Lavender by Deanna Montanio; sent in by Ruth Smallwood.

A volunteer cardinal flower with phlox,;sent by Pat Rawls of Foster.

Ruth Smallwood snapped this ...