It sucks that most people don't read comments on images, because I had some fun with this one:

"Green" Energy

The ones in color are using the 'Art Academy' program (actually, just the cheapy demo version).










After the Miiverse closing was announced:








This one was buried in the comments of the contest post so I re-posted it so more people could see it:




Last image before they shut down Miiverse:

Some photos of animals around here:

One of the goats:


A big Jackrabbit:


The cutest mouse ever (and really loud yeller), rescued from cats:


Collared Doves:



Scissor-tail Flycatcher:


Brown-Headed Cowbird:


Baby Barn swallows:


Female Northern Cardinal:


Painted Bunting:


Rooster:


Northern Mockingbird:

...who caught a bug out of the air while he was standing there.


Hummingbirds:




...and the bees love hummingbird food, too:



Bumblebees, also:



More insects and arachnids:

Paper Wasp:


Variegated Fritillary Butterfly:


Dragonflys:
Orange Meadowhawk:


White-tail Skimmer


Western Harvester Ant:


No idea what this kind of spider this is...but she lost a leg:


Cellar Spider:


Plains Leopard Frog:


Southern Ring-Necked Snake (also saved from cats):



Checkered Garter Snake:

Stars and Moon:
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Solar Eclipse:
(what it looked like improperly focused)


Moon:





Stars:





A Glow Worm that was out while I took the sky shots:


Storm GIF:


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Halloween Glow Sticks:








Thanks for looking at my photos:



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I also made a new car paint job in Midnight Club of Katia Managan:

Some more animal photos I took:

Sonoran Gopher Snake:


Wild Pigs:


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Barn Swallow:


Brewer's Sparrow:


Female House Finch


Female and Male House Finches:


Chipping Sparrows and a House Finch:


Black-Crested Titmouse:


Female Painted Bunting:


Male Painted Bunting and female Northern Cardinal:


Northern Cardinal fledgling:


Red-Winged Blackbird:


Scott's Oriole:


Woodhouse's Scrub Jay fledgling:


Female Painted Bunting bathing herself and splashing an annoyed House Finch:


Some Cedar Waxwings that made a stop on their way back north from Mexico:



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Black-Tailed Crab Spider:


Bold Jumper Spider:


Desert Tarantula:


Wolf Spider:


Rabid Wolf Spider:


Scolopendra heros var. castaneiceps aka Texas Redheaded Centipede (apparently has super potent venom):


Eastern Cicada Killer wasp (this sucker was like a flying tank; took a half-dozen swats to kill it, and it hit the ground with a heavy thud. It was big enough to stretch most of the sideways-length of my palm ) :


Female Rhinoceros Beetle: