Photo Challenge--Patriotism

I've been looking forward to this photo challenge. Thank you to Karen for hosting. Be sure to visit her at Faith Of A Single Mom to link to the other participants' blogs. And I'm the next host so check back with me on Sunday for the next theme. So here goes!!

I took this picture a few years back in Croudcroft, New Mexico. My husband and I took a trip to just "get away." It rained a lot of the time we were there, but we spent a lot of time taking pictures. I really enjoyed the time and loved this shot of the hummingbird feeder next to a flag on a sidewalk in the shopping center.

I know I'm cheating, but this collage picture is something I put together with pictures from our Independence Day celebration with friends at our house last Friday. I even took a picture of my fabric to use as the background. See my patriotic dessert!! We had so much fun!

Now for my last Photo-------I cheated again!

My youngest son, Jonathan, will be 20 on Sunday. These are various pictures from when he received his infantry braid at the conclusion of infantry training, his basic training graduation, leaving to serve in Iraq, and a pictures from Iraq. I also guess I'm cheating in that I didn't take quite all of these pictures. Moms can't go to Iraq to take their son's picture for a photo challenge.