Zinnias #AtoZChallenge

I've reached the finish line!  I have completed the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.

Because my theme was Beauty of our Land, I decided to do one more flower post, this time of the Zinnia.  

For this post, I've taken some of my favorite zinnia photos.  I used to grow them, but I didn't last year, and probably won't this year.   I try to grow them at my house but the seedlings somehow get eaten.  I've grown them in the past at a local community garden, but we have given up our plots for now.

Most of these Zinnias are mine.  I think the two butterfly photos may have been taken at a garden in Binghamton, New York back in 2023. 

Yellow speckled with red.

Bee on zinnia.

Yes, there are green zinnias.

Speckled.

Swallowtail butterfly.

Monarch butterfly.

White and orange.

Not sure what to call this.

The grand finale.  I hope you've enjoyed my offerings this Challenge.  I will probably, after Thursday, go back to my usual schedule and I hope you'll join me at any or all of the below:

Mondays:  Music Moves Me

Wednesday:  Wordless Wednesday

Friday:  Skywatch Friday

Sunday:  Shadowshot Sunday. 

And, probably May 5, my Reflections post for A to Z. 

Z Day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  My theme: Beauty of our Land.

Congratulations to everyone who finished the Challenge.   Join us from May 4-9 for our Reflections posts.