You take great squirrel pictures, Lin. Do you use a long-range zoom lens or do you sneak up on them?

Thank you Zuzu. LOL, I don't know a thing about cameras and mine doesn't have interchangeable lenses, I just zoom in as close as I can with the built in lens on my camera, a Canon PowerShot SX60HS ... whatever that means.

indeed, great squirrel pics and bird pics and butterfly pics and flower pics and plant pics and tree pics and, and!

@dirtdorphins, Dirt ... thank you so much; that means a lot coming from such a great photographer! You're photos are amazing and they always have me wishing that I'd studied and learned about cameras and photography when I was young.

Thanks Lin!
the ironic thing is I'm no great photographer
I also wish that I'd studied and learned about cameras and photography when I was young.
I just got my very first ever camera a few years ago when I joined this site so that I could take pics to share here!

We prove two things: first, we don't have to know what we're doing to succeed once in a while; and second, we're never too old to learn just enough to get by