Take a look at our asters. These are New York Celeste asters that we purchased last fall. I separated them into several plants from the five we purchased but sadly several of them succumbed to a rust. I pulled those and left the healthy ones and now we have these asters to enjoy. Because of the division I made last fall I ended up with six this year despite losing four.

I love the types of pictures I can take with the lenses. The Nikon camera came with an 18-55mm and a 55-200mm. This butterfly would have been quite fuzzy on our other camera.



I took quite a few pictures with the continuous picture mode and selected the one I liked best of this tiger swallowtail butterfly. I can already see a danger with the new camera: picture storage space! Time to look for another hard drive...
I hope I get the time tonight to take some pictures for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day tomorrow!