Day lily

Another up-close zoom into a day lily.

Day lilies

 I've always loved the ridiculously huge stamen and pistil structures that explode out of the center of a lily.

Day lilies

 More day lilies, this time pink.

Clover flowers

Flowers from clover in our lawn.

Berries

 Another closer view of a berry bunch.

Berries

 Little waxy white berries from one of our trees.

Deep red lilies

Lushly deep red lilies in our back yard.

Step pyramid

 Another view of the bubbling cylinders of the step pyramid.

Step pyramid

 A sort of step pyramid of marble shoot bits and tupperware.

Teether

An old teether looking surprisingly ominous up close and backlit.

Yellow shapes

 Shapes formed by my daughter's blocks.

Sparkly cylinders

 Sparkly pink cylinders from our marble set.

Spiky ball

 A soft spiky play ball.

Marbles

 Marbles in close up.

Feline repose

 Veronica drowsing bonelessly by the window.

Sunset

A nice orange sunset over a bank of trees.

Bed of flowers

 I appreciated the pun in the flowerbed in front of this house.

Clothesline mural

Mural of a clothesline on the side of a big red shed.

Birdhouse cluster

 Cluster of bird-houses on a pole together, clearly successful and heavily occupied.

Redbird Farm WMA, Johnson County, IA

 Through the wide sloping fields of the preserve.

Pink flowers, Redbird Farm WMA, Johnson County, IA

Big floofy pink flowers in the fields of Redbird Farm preserve.

Redbird Farm pond, Johnson County, IA

 Algae-fringed pond hidden in the woods of the Redbird Farm preserve.

Black lacewing

 Black lace-winged insect perched on a leaf.

Sunbeam marbles

Marbles gleaming in the sinking sun.

Marble tops

 Little tops filled with marbles and showed off proudly to Daddy.

Ledge dice

 And if she can't put the dice on the stairs, then perhaps on the ledge above the stairs?

Stair party

Another example, with the animals' party being both incredibly cute to us and at the same time a rather substantial obstacle to using the stairs.

Stair dice pattern

The patterns began to grow up and down the whole of the stairs, and we began to get worried about people slipping and falling on unexpected dice. The little one was very upset when we started to ask her to make them elsewhere. I think she really enjoyed having such a big and structured "canvas" to work with.

Color snakes

 Snakes of color forming on the stairs.

Branching line

We seem to have developed some sort of water-course of toys in our upstairs hallway.