Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES #107, 2 by scarletbean

scarletbean wrote:
CAIvy, I gotta say that you have hit the nail on the head( well, perhaps in my case hit the photographer on the head! ; ) ) Knowing the functions of your camera and how to use them is sooooo important to good pics. Also, a little knowledge of where the sun or light is coming from helped me a lot. I got a camera from a pawn shop for $35 about 4 years ago. It's a little Canon powershotA1100 IS. It came as is and I had to look online for the manual. Geez, what a yawn! It was hard to understand since I was unfamiliar with many of the concepts and it had many technical terms I didn't know. So 4 years later it is still trial and much error. I am surprised by how nice many turn out even with my ineptitude. Thank goodness I can erase the crappy ones.
About the cats, I like to give them fresh leaves at least every other day. I either do a little potted plant (dill, parsley,and passionvine) or in the case of milkweed which is too big, I put foil over the rim of a little jelly jar with water, rubberband around the edge and poke the stems thru so the cats dont fall in the water.Once they get big, I just use a damp paper towel around the stems since they eat so much so fast. And, Poop scooping is very important. They poop ALOT!
I am glad this subject came up, since I need to start the little potted plants to be ready for caterpillars. I have not seen many BFs lately. But it has been cold, rainy and overcast for about a week. Yesterday and today are warm and sunny. I had better get the camera handy.