215/365:  I love this glass, which has a gradient from orange at the top to red at the bottom.  But they are remarkably fragile and not for general use.  (Yeah, that’s right- I missed a third picture right between the last one I posted and this one.  Nice work, eh?  But missing three out of 229 is not terrible!)

216/365: Blue false indigo growing in my backyard.  I really love this plant, but I am trying to phase out its current flowerbed home.  I didn’t get to moving this one this spring, so I will have to wait to move it until after the blooms go away.  It is such a pretty color.

217/365: My LensAlign system, which helps to perfect focus on camera lenses.  I spent quite a lot of time getting it working.

218/365: Johnson’s Blue geraniums, which I planted the first year that I lived in my house.  They have gotten steadily bigger every year, and this year they’re the size of small shrubs.  The blooms are quite beautiful.

219/365: My hand and fingers.  It is remarkably hard to get a good composition of your own hand while looking through a viewfinder.

220/365: Beautiful spicebush swallowtail having a feast on the blooming honeysuckle in my yard.  It was gorgeous and smelled deliciously.  I was taking pictures of the honeysuckle when this guy made a noisy appearance, clearly taking advantage of a pretty spring day.

221/365: A bamboo cutting board in my kitchen.  I like the grain of this wood.

222/365: A pretty blue bowl that I’ve had for years and years.

223/365: A gorgeous day at the ballpark, watching the Colorado Rockies beat our hometown Kansas City Royals.  We had a lot of fun anyway.  And this was taken pretty much from our seats.

224/365: Lovely texture in a red towel in my bathroom.

225/365: I like the colors of the KC Royals team.

226/365: Red osier dogwood blossoms in my yard.  This tree doesn’t bloom much, the flowers don’t have much of a scent, and it doesn’t put on much of an autumn show.  But that’s why I like the tree- it’s just a nice tree.

227/365: Detail on my fiberglass poinsettia lamp shade.

228/365: A small shrub that blooms in my backyard at this time of year.  I don’t know the type!  I will have to look it up.