yes, I know this isn’t a beetle, but at least he’s cute – even if he was probably eating my irises
We had a lot of beetles this year, I’ve never seen the like in Italy!
In May we had roses, oh how we had roses! I was so busy taking the close-up shots of them that I love:
…that I neglected to get any good pictures to show off the mass of blooms along our back fence. This is the best I’ve got:
