I’ve got a couple of topics that I’m planning to tackle, including a lengthy rebuttal post that’s in process but deserves a lot of editing attention, and a whole lot of images in the folder awaiting attention – just, not the time or energy to tackle bigger posts at the moment. So what we have now is a bunch of scattered stuff that I’m throwing at the wall, just to maintain
Author: Al Denelsbeck
Persistent illusion
Every once in a while, as I’m perusing old posts (because the ego knows no bounds,) I come across this image and, just about every time, I interpret it entirely incorrectly – which is bonkers because not only am I the one who photographed it, I had the subject right in hand and know exactly how it looks. The last two times, I reminded myself I should revisit it as an optical
Estate Find XXV
Not a stunning one this week, but hopefully, one that will produce a follow-up sometime in the near future. I was digging in some soft mulch alongside the back steps and unearthed this:
Definitely an egg, almost certainly of a Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) – I’ve seen the eggs of ground
‘Tis been a year…
… since we first saw the new Walkabout Estates Plus in person.
Yep, we were perusing the real estate listings and considering this location, initially having rejected it for not having some specific criteria, then a closer look seemed to contradict that, indicating that it actually met those criteria. The Girlfriend had the day off for the Juneteenth holiday, and I said, “You
You can call me Ray
I had this one a couple of days ago and purposefully stalled it for the holiday today, which is Is that…? No… Is It? Day, the day when we celebrate the clash between what we think we know and what the evidence is telling us. For this, I present something captured this past Monday while down at Goose Creek State Park.
It was a quiet day, with no sign of either osprey or cormorants and
Slight success
Last night’s (or early this morning’s) activities were quite scattered. So, let me spell this out for you. I already had the duckling video done – that was from the previous evening – and was planning to post it. I’d also been out after the duckling video was shot to get the lightning pics and video, and they were also posted by last night. But another storm was rolling
Just before dark
It’s now this scattered occasion when we see a mother wood duck (Aix sponsa) visit with her brood, and it’s routinely been at a time when I’m unprepared this is because they can see us easily even when we’re in the house watching out the windows, which are too distorting to actually shoot through. The options are, a) be outside but someplace
Gotta be magic
I’ve got a couple of posts that I’m trying to get to, and yet things keep popping up that deserve the bloggish attention, so they get pushed back a little. I seem to be running in this vacillating state between no posts while tackling other projects, and then too much to post. Geez…
Tempestuous
Last night the lightning alert was going off madly, and the maps showed a couple of massive cells passing through, but not quite getting to us – they looked to be missing us by a small margin off to the west. Encouraged by this, I headed down to the waterfront because that afforded the best views east and west (actually, more west-northwest and east-southeast, but you take what you can get.)
Reclaimed
A few weeks back, we installed a new light fixture by the front walk, mounted to a 4×4 post. Going to the local Lowes Home Improvement store to get a cap for it was utterly pointless, despite the fact that they listed 15 of them in stock – the store has repeatedly proven to be grossly incompetent, and unfortunately it’s the only place for such materials within 30 kilometers. This