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
Category: Photography
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
Anole fix
About to do some work on the car yesterday, opened the hood and zoom! this little guy leapt away and scurried up the drainpipe a short ways, then stopped. As I leaned in with the camera, it regarded me suspiciously but never moved, and remained there for no small length of time while I worked on the car, intermittently visible not two meters away through the gap behind
On the negative, and positive, side
Doing a little recordkeeping last night, I found that I already have 190 posts for the year, not counting this one, while last year’s total number of posts was 233, a personal record (the dumbest kind of record.) That means, in order to beat this number, I’d have to post at least 44 more times, or eleven posts per month. Given that I’m still doing the Profiles
Profiles of Nature 32
Yes, it’s been seven days. No, we haven’t been playing with the calendar or the clocks. No, we cannot skip a week for good behavior.
This week’s featured model is Ada Mae Luella, which everyone agrees has to be a southern name, because southerners like to hear themselves talk that’s why, “damn,” can actually be three syllables. We’re