I apologize, but there’s no Estate Find this week – I’ve spent the past two days doing almost nothing but dealing with contractors, after an extended weekend with guests over. While I did indeed go out a few times trying to find something, I was interrupted/cut short twice and found nothing new the other times.
It do be like this sometimes; despite your best efforts, you don’t produce anything of interest, and this can be made worse by insisting on something new. I’ve done extended outings like that, numerous times, and have also done sessions where almost none of the images that I did take were worth keeping. While it’s not a bad idea to have goals and to push yourself to produce something of interest, sometimes you simply have to let it go, since you can’t make the wildlife and conditions around you bend to your will.
Still, I won’t just leave it at that, so we’ll have a faintly fartsy pic from weeks ago, when The Girlfriend’s trumpet flowers (Brugmansia) were blooming.
Man, those are over two months old, dating from June 27th! But the lighting gives a reasonably accurate impression I think, because these open fully and look best at night, attempting to attract some nocturnal pollinator that doesn’t actually live in this area, since these were imported (long ago) from South America and are actually extinct in the regions where they evolved – which isn’t to say that they aren’t thriving in areas where they were introduced. Still, whatever pollinator they evolved to attract ain’t coming…
We can go further back into the folder, too.
This dates back from May 2021, and wasn’t used then partially because I could never identify it. It’s perhaps even smaller than the impression given here, since it measured (if I remember accurately) somewhere between 15 and 20mm in length, and is likely a juvenile, perhaps only recently emerged from tadpoledom. As such, it probably doesn’t have its adult coloration in place, but it looks closest to a barking treefrog, especially those ringed spots. However, I never found any other evidence of the species in that region (this being where we used to live,) though they supposedly could be found in there. I’m just taking the opportunity to clean out a couple of older pics from the blog folder.
What the hell – let’s get rid of the oldest.
I don’t recall what the original purpose of this image was supposed to be, though the contemplative nature of it is obvious. It dates back from 2006, which predates the blog itself, and while it obviously got into this folder later than that, the program that I used for editing wrote the original ‘Date Taken’ as the ‘Date Modified,’ so I can offer nothing further. Those that maintain that I’m looking more and more like this as time goes by are ignoring that fact that the chimp has more hair on top (that’s considerably less grey) and does not have eyebrows sprouting wild and unruly hairs that resemble kudzu in more ways than one. The ears are a dead match though.
Anyway, better luck next week, and naturally I will present things here at other times as I find them, plus the occasional semi-philosophical post and some utter nonsense thrown in for seasoning. Don’t give up on me yet (he says to a nonexistent audience…)