S’okay, not much warning on one of them, but if you’re here, you don’t really need the prompting, even if it’s prompting to not be here – you may not need that either. But tomorrow, June 13th, is National Get Outdoors Day, or at least, USA Get Outdoors Day; it may not extend beyond our own country here. Now granted, the heat index
Category: Photography
Right on schedule
Out the other evening, I found something that, in the back of my mind, I figured was about due to start showing up, if last year was any guide. That would be this:
Yep, it’s a golden silk orbweaver (Trichonephila clavipes,) almost certainly female yet quite a young and small one, considering how big they usually get. I guess I should say was, since I just
Tip Jar 23: Batteries
I had two other potential topics slotted in for this one, and had stalled in deciding which one to tackle, much less begin on. Then yesterday my gut decided I should be spending a lot more time in the bathroom, and I didn’t get to either of them. Finally stabilizing much later, I still decided to put the whole post off until today, and instead just started checking out Walkabout Estates by
(Off) Estate Find 63
Poking around at night by the headlamp again, endeavoring not to get eaten by a bear, I realized there was a faint sound that kept repeating, and I didn’t recognize it as anything ‘typical’ – the frogs were making a racket down at the pond, but this wasn’t a frog. So I started following
Ya got a dime?
Hang onto it, because you’ll need it in a moment.
Towards dusk, The Girlfriend and I were next to the liriope patches alongside the walk when I spotted movement. Expecting an anole, because of course (they do own the property,) instead I found a micro-subject that The Girlfriend was astonished by. I went to get something to capture it within while she kept her eyes on it, and luckily
Tip Jar 22: Condensation
Quick one this week – I think I mentioned someplace that I’ve been a little busy, and so too little time to prepare with images and so on. However, we’re just entering into the season for this in roughly half of the US, while the northernmost portions might see very little application of this advice, and the southernmost may have already been dealing with it. There are also times
Yeah, okay, well…
Bombarded by countless* messages pointing out my error, I realized that I didn’t do that little chant while I was preparing the month-end post, and somehow scheduled it for yesterday instead of today. In my defense**, it’s been a busy week and especially weekend, with too many simultaneous things vying for attention, and so I missed this and looked like*** an idiot.
So, another abstract
May I leave you with this?
I guess I’m not too tired of May puns…
Anyway, it’s the last day of the month, and so time for the end-of-the-month abstracts, We cheat and go into archival images for this, actually waaayy back, into negative scans from the last century. Well, the scans might not necessarily be, but the negatives certainly were. I came across these both when I was trying to find some other
Estate Find 53a
Estate Find 53 was back in January, and this is simply a continuation of the story.
I had to go away for a while, ended up returning at roughly 1 AM this morning – spooked a handful of deer near the end of the driveway, but otherwise all seemed quiet. I got the first load of schtuff out of the car, had a quick bathroom break, and headed back out to get another load, flipping on the porch and
Psscchhfff, “topic”
Who needs one, am I right? No need to get all hoity-toity with this – it’s a blog.
Which means I’m cleaning out a handful of images that have been piling up in the blog folder, unable to be attached to any theme.
Out one night and tracking a nearby ratcheting sound, I happened across this guy and got some nice poses, largely to try and invoke an identification since