Just a brief interlude, and because c’mon. The other night we had a persistent drifting mist, and the sleeping young Carolina anoles (Anolis carolinensis) were recipients of this, as was about every flat surface. Naturally I couldn’t pass this up…
Category: Nature
Grey, part two: The scenics
As we advance into our past weekend’s photos, there came the realization that they should be broken up even more, and so we’re going to have a ‘part three’ later on. Right now, we have what the environment was looking like, which is specific, because the day dawned (as predicted by meteorologists) in a dense fog.
When instructing students about ISO, my basic
Grey part one
This past weekend I got back to my old stomping grounds, a metaphor that I don’t exactly know the origin of and hopefully it’s not another that’s sports related, but by this I mean the area that I lived in until not quite two years ago, a more central portion of central North Carolina. Sure, I’ve done this numerous times since we moved, but this time I had some time, the
Not already?
Wow, it’s the end of July already – I’d be really annoyed if I was still back in school. Well, that goes without saying, since I should have been on summer break all through July, but what I meant was, I’d be really annoyed that summer break was already half over. As you may derive from that, I was never terribly fond of school, information that may either surprise
Rare conditions
First off, I haven’t really determined where all my time is going, but I have at least three posts, maybe more, of photos to get to and they keep shifting farther back. The Illustrious Mr Bugg, at least, is going to wonder what the hell’s wrong with me. They’re coming, they’re coming… but not until after this.
Last night we got a fierce set of thunderstorms, the kind
Maintain the lead
In a previous post (don’t I say that a lot? Livin’ in the past, livin’ in the past) I mentioned that the tag, ‘Carolina anole’ was the most prevalent on the ol’ bloggachomps here, and since we just recently had a post about the runner-up, ‘Chinese mantis,’ we now have to feature more anoles just to prevent slipping from first place. This is how I justify
Doesn’t mean we like it
So, the pond has been bouncing up and down rather dramatically the first big rain that we had following the drastic draining filled it entirely back up again to the previous level, quite impressive considering how far down it extends, not depth-wise, but laterally south – it was a hell of a rain.
Let’s have some mants
Even more of the backlog of photos that I have, trying to clear them out as I add still more to the stack.
On two non-successive night, I found a few mantids, which is about as many as I saw in total last year. Okay, there were probably more for last year, but not a lot – this location isn’t as liked by the mantids as the old place, as evidenced by ‘Chinese mantis’ being the
Let’s have some plants
I have a small collection of plant images from around the Estates, so we’re finally getting to those now, before we have more critters.
I mentioned previously about the new hibiscus (Malvaceae) plant, and so we’ll concentrate on the part that everyone thinks about when they think ‘hibiscus,’ except for Hawai’i and hula dancers and all that stuff.
These
Tip Jar 29: Sunrises and sunsets
A perennial favorite, yet most often snagged only as someone notices them and not as much planned for, so let’s do a little planning.
Know your times. There are a million ways to know when sunrise and sunset are going to occur, but there are two primary things to consider. The first is, any source that doesn’t calculate your actual position (i.e., know where you are)