Family, food, photography
It rained while I was cooking pasta for lunch. Five minutes after the rain stops is always the perfect time to take photos of the flowers in the garden. 
If you want to see the ants up close, click the links to pages 2 and 3.
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What happened with the pasta while you took those pictures?
What are those ants doing in the flower? Nectar lovers?
The pasta didn’t burn hahahaha
The flowers in that particular plant… there are ants there rain or shine.