I've been doing a Photo of the Year for more than 20 years, and have now decided to do a Photo of the Day. I have about 4,800 images online, so I figured there must be at least one for almost every day of the year. After plugging all the dates into my database, it turns out I'm 21 days short.

But I am forging ahead. I will fill in those empty dates with an image from a nearby date, and over the next few years will make an effort to fill in the holes. February and March are my worst month with four missing dates each. May, June and July have no missing dates. I guess I like to shoot outside when the weather is decent. I have 294 images posted dated July 4. We have the parade, rodeo and fireworks every year, and this year alone I posted 54 images.

Click here for today's Photo of the Day. Here's the POD for the date of this post, July 18.

Mountain Bluebird fledgling, Red Lodge, MT, 7/18/2021.