Scenes from Penn Hills Park in Penn Hills, Pennysylvania
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The aftermath of a coneflower
[The cone-shaped center of a coneflower remains after all the petals fell off. Behind this cone is another flower with a few petals left and a center that is more a mound than a cone.]

Coneflower with a beetle and a bee
[Very close view of the center of a pink coneflower bud. The petals are attached, but fall downward away from the center. The center is a bunch of orange spikes. A beetle is walking across the top of the center while a bee walks around the outer edge of the center.]

A bee sampling a bergamot.
[A very close view of a fuzzy yellow and black bee with a black spot on the yellow portion. The wings are black as are the thick legs. The bee is perched on the green portion of the bergamot bloom which is a collection of long lilac tubes emanating from a central spot.]

A silver-spotted skipper butterfly sampling a bergamot.
[A close view of a mostly brown butterfly which has an irregular-shaped white stripe on its wing. The butterfly is hanging from the lilac petals on the right side of the bloom. The long thin lilac tubes emanate from the center of the bloom and paritial cover the head of the butterfly.]

This looks like flowers within the flower.
[A close view of a yellow flower with eight rectangular shape petals. The center of the flower is a sphere of what appears to be several dozen tiny yellow tubular flowers.]

Another interesting flower
[Amid the long thin green leaves are spheres of brown sticks with purple balls on the end of each stick. Some of those purple balls have small five-petal pink flowers on them.]

Black-eyed Susan blooming downward.
[This flower with a multitude of yellow petals falling away from a brown conical center is upside-down which means the petals are curved upward away from the center which is pointing downward.]

Coneflower with interesting color variation on its petals
[Side view of a flower with a brown cone in its center has several alternating petals curled upward so not all of the petals are visible. The petals are yellow on the outward portion and brownish-red on the inner portion. Each petal converges to a point at the outward edge.]

Two different ebony jewelwing damselflies
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top-down view of the damselfly perched on a leaf. The damselfly's body is metallic green color. The shadow of the insect's wing is the only way to see the shape of the wing. On the right side is a right-side view of the damselfly which has its all-black wings together above its body. The body of this damselfly is more of a metallic blue-green color. The legs are all black.]

Cabbage white butterfly
[Left side-view of the creamy white butterfly with a few dark markings on its wings. The butterfly is perched on a rising blade of grass.]

Eastern rat snake
[View of part of this large snake as it slithers through the undergrowth. The snake's skin is black with section of yellow arrow-like stripes.]

Penn Hills creek
[View looking upstream of the brownish water flanked on both shores with trees and shrubbery growing slightly over the edge of the water. The trees are tall enough to extend through the top of the image.]

Fish in Penn Hills creek
[In this relatively shallow section of the creek the sun in shining and the manyh rocks lining the creekbed are visible. Above the rocks swim at least a dozen light-colored fish. The shadows of the fish are visible on the rocks below.]

Two different Millipedes
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top-down view of the millipede as it locomotes across the ground. The body segments appear to alternate in color between rust brown and black. The black sections expand as the milipede moved. On the right is a millipede curled to the left so all its many rust-colored hair-like legs are visible. In this view the millipede's body appears to be a silvery-gray color.]

New leaves growing on the vine
[Two photos spliced together. The photo on the right is a close view of a portion of the photo on the left. The vine curves upward from the lower right to the left and has leaves along its length. At each point where a leaf has grown, there is now a new multi-part very light green growth that appears to be small leaves twirled into a thin tube. On the right is a closer view of these twirled tubes.]

This is probably considered to be a 'weed', but I thought the 'flowers' were interesting.
[The plant has long thin leaves growing in a pair (across from each other). Above the leaves are three groupings of teeny tiny white buds with only a few completely open.]

I believe these are the same flower species even though the color is different.
[Two photos spliced together. The bloom on the left is orange with red speckles while the one on the right is yellow with red speckles. The shape of both blooms is very similar. There are three petals in the front which attach to a wide tube. At the end of a wide tube is a thin tube which curves back toward the front of the bloom.]

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