So much important news

And by, “important,” I mean, “ridiculously and trivially personal,” which is exactly what a blog is for, right?

Anyway, a few days back I lamented being unable to capture images of a frog while it was ensconced within the grooves of the elephant ear stalks, which was enough to stir Fate read more

Frog closeout sale!

I’ve collected a few too many frogs, so I’m slashing prices and passing the savings on to you. Let’s see if I can complete this before October really and truly has left.


Back on the 10th, I found this little spud sitting on the decorative sweet potato plants alongside the front door, slightly larger than a thumbnail. It behaved well enough to allow me read more

Nebraska is stepping up production


Another quiet week, so we’ll make up for it with a video – how’s that sound?

While the wood ducks (Aix sponsa) had thinned throughout the summer, they were still making appearances, albeit mostly the juveniles. Abruptly, the Canada geese (Branta canadensis) joined them, a couple read more

Well, we’ll let you go, October

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot – before we go…

[That’s how far too many conversations go, isn’t it? Aliens would probably consider it a human ritual…]

Yes indeed, October has to go pick up the kids, so it’s dropping a couple of abstracts by the pool in a hurry before anyone can ask any questions. They look a little something like this:


One of those times read more

Icky ones

A handful of the pics that have been accumulating over the past couple of weeks I decided to go with the creepy ones this time around.

First, if you recall when I tackled the jagged ambush bug some time back, I placed read more

Estate Find 66

Quite surprised to see this little spud hanging out on one of the rainbarrels this morning.


The temperatures have dropped significantly after the brutal heat of the summer, and we went to late fall quickly, especially overnight, meaning the treefrogs we’d been seeing for months vanished abruptly, and even the anoles only venture out in midday. I found this one just a little read more

Stomping Grounds: The fartsy portraits


We’re back to the Jordan Lake session again, but this time we’re going for the high art angle, better than A through E art, and frame-worthy portraits to boot. Get out your checkbook! And do a websearch to find out what a ‘checkbook’ is…

It’s gonna be a little heron-heavy, since that’s what was most present that day, but hey – herons are majestic birds read more

Why it be like that?


Sunday evening, we could see the clouds lighting up with the approaching sunset, and hopped in the car to get down to the waterfront, since the sunset (or sunrise) views at Walkabout Estates are lacking – too many trees nearby. On the way, we could see the sun already hidden behind a bank of clouds but edging those with brilliant gold and a few crepuscular rays, but this view read more

Not for this

While preparing to stage some of the shots for this past Tip Jar, I was rearranging things in Deep 13 and needed to prop something up for a few minutes, so I went out into the yard to get a brick. I’m smart enough (and have past experiences that remind me) to check such things first before bringing them indoors, and so turned it over to ensure there were no spiders or fun things clinging to read more

Stomping Grounds: The behavior

Considering that I made this trip a week ago, I think I’ve stalled long enough on getting the pics up, but there are enough to split into two posts, so here’s the first. We’ll see how many weeks it takes me to get to the second…


Finding myself back in the area on errands, I arranged to meet up with the Inimitable Mr Bugg again and do a trip down to Jordan read more

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