There are a lot of blogs out there that amount to something only slightly more elaborate than a diary or journal, with a lot of personal examination and coping with issues and so on. I’m not disparaging these at all, because I’m sure they help a lot of people – it’s just never been for me. I don’t usually feel comfortable airing my personal issues here, and it’s
Author: Al Denelsbeck
Have I mentioned how much I like this lens?
Just a quick pic from tonight – more will be along, but probably not until it’s technically ‘tomorrow’ at least.
Anyway, inspecting the yard by headlamp, I came across a sleeping dragonfly, a blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) on one of the gardenia bushes.
Dragonflies cannot see well enough to hunt at night, plus they need a lot of heat for their wing muscles
Running behind
Still not keeping up with the post count, and I feel absolutely awful, I’m here to tell you (okay, no I don’t, just slightly contrite, but not so much that a shrug can’t dismiss it.) And the subjects haven’t improved, though I did make a couple of attempts at something a little different, with no success as yet. But here’s another scale comparison, because
Sunday color, arthropod edition
Continuing the theme, we have a look at the monochromatically-challenged bugs also found on Saturday’s outing.
Had I been inclined, I could have rushed to post this yesterday, since it was National Honey Bee Day, and this is indeed a European honeybee (Apis mellifera.) This was taken on that day, at least, but we’ve already had a holiday for August,
Saturday color
I have a list of the titles of every post, in an attempt not to have duplicates, and double-checked this one before continuing. Not only have I not done ‘Saturday color’ before, the only time I’ve done Saturday in a title has been ‘Saturday night black & white,’ only a few months ago. Go figure.
Anyway, quick photos without much exposition, from an outing today.
Average: average
Oops, I’m one behind on my ‘daily’ posts, or at least one for every day of the month should correct that soon enough. In the meantime, various things are progressing – some usefully, some not so.
For instance, the car is back together and on the road, one of those deals where the work that needed to be done would normally be mildly involved, but due to an incredibly bad design,
Profiles of Nature 33
While countless devotees try to establish proof of a loving god, we have effortlessly proven just the opposite, because these posts are still here, week after week, despite fervent pleas for them to mercifully cease. Check and mate.
This week we have தஸரத, who imagines himself quite the raconteur because of the gales of laughter that accompany
What you get
Yes, I know we’ve had quite enough of the green treefrogs for a while, the rest of the year probably, but listen: It’s hot as hell, even when it’s raining, I’m a little under the weather (The name’s Stool – Lou Stool,) and overall it’s not worth trying to chase subjects elsewhere. Even the night sky is near-overcast
I would have been so embarrassed
Oh my gosh, I almost let this one slip by! Today (the first Monday after a Friday the 13th that falls in a very hot non-leap-year) is Find the Flounder Day – I nearly forgot, and you all know the routine if someone forgets Find the Flounder Day. Many people celebrate the holiday by hiding a flounder around their home or workplace, which would mean that I’d have to invite
C’mon, guys!
I was just going through the main site’s gallery to locate something, and noticed that several of the thumbnails and gallery photos were rotated incorrectly, displaying in horizontal format rather than the intended vertical, due to weird default settings in the ‘Orientation’ EXIF info and the program