It took me a couple of days to get to it, but I managed to sit down and design the flashlight mount for the cheap little camcorder mount/stabilizer, and then get it printed on the trusty 3D printer. I designed it in six parts, mostly so the height/angle of the flashlight beam could be adjusted to match the center of the camcorder’s field of view.
The shocking part? Everything
Or something like that. It’s time for the end of the month abstract, is what we’re sayin’. Unfortunately, it looks like this:
See, there were only about two things that I shot this month that looked even vaguely abstracty, and we’ve already seen those. I toyed with several different subjects, none of which even faintly worth the time, before finally getting
Why is it the holidays all come bunching up together? Isn’t someone smart enough to pick parts of the month or year lacking holidays, and fill in the gaps?
But I’m as much a slave to it as any other nature & wildlife, critical-thinking, 80s music blogger, and so we take the time to recognize that it’s Question The Value Of One’s Own Judgment Day, not
I’m sitting here reflecting on perspectives, somehow believing that something profound will be produced by it and yet not really finding anything that isn’t trite, and the reason for this is, this marks the end of the seventeenth year of the old blogoblob. Reaching the age of seventeen, personally I mean, seemed interminable, and now I’ve been posting for that
Like, twelve hours later than my typical posting time – I am wracked with guilt. But to play on your sympathies, I haven’t been feeling well the past day or so, and so snuck in a couple of naps when I should have been working on this video. And of course, video editing takes so damn long in the first place, or at least, it does for me…
To add to that, nothing particularly new with
So, with today being the winter solstice and thus having the fewest daylight minutes of the year, we celebrate that the days are now getting longer from here, as it’s typically put, which goes to show you how we can’t handle our own language they days are the same length that they always are, except for a few picoseconds, but the axial tilt of the planet means the ratio
… what, five days ago, when the temperature dropped to -6°c overnight, and got barely above freezing during the day?
Yeah.
It was 21° as I took these this afternoon. North Carolina, man…
Six yellow-bellied sliders (Trachemys scripta scripta) had piled onto the limited real estate of Turtle Island to enjoy the sun, showing that they’re adept at detecting the air
As we come to the penultimate Estate Find for the year, I have to admit that, while a few of them were punted or downright skipped, there was still a surprising amount of new finds, observations, behaviors, and so on. And here we add another new species, at least to me and to the blog:
My exposure to the varied duck species of North America has been fairly limited, and so I wasn’t in the habit
Another video here, which makes this the [insert accurate count here] one for the year – it looks like I’m branching out into videography more than a little bit. And yes, more of the same subjects, but listen: I’ve spent very long periods of time featuring insects and spiders and lizards and worse, so at least we’re dealing with something cute right now.
Semi-routinely, when
As intimated earlier, I did get out to do a few shots while the temperatures remained in the ‘frigid’ class, eventually peaking above freezing, but not by a lot. And while we’ve already well surpassed the record for images uploaded during a year, we’ll take any opportunity to blast it out of the water, because why not? The ducks were not only conspicuously absent for nearly
