"Each #entrance leads somewhere different," the guide said. What I saw were hundreds of different styles of gates: huge ones hewn from entire mountains, delicate ones made of twigs and cobwebs, waterfalls that parted to admit you--on and on.

"I see some #bear inscriptions," I remarked. "This one says 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here.' What sort of person chooses that entrance?"

The guide shrugged. "Not everyone's into warning labels, I guess?" he suggested.

#wss366 #microfiction

Female Ruby-Throated #Hummingbird visiting the front #garden.

#MondaysAreForTheBirds #birds #flowers #gardening #SuburbanWildlife

First time in somewhere around 10 years that I've seen a bumblebee here:

#flowers #nature #bumblebee