The uploads for August still won’t compete with July (144) and March (126) of this year, but they will set a record for August uploads within the ol’ blogarooty, and to be honest, I have plenty of images to put up – I’m just remaining thematic right now, and saving some for a slower day. So what we have here are images from three sessions chasing Lepidoptera
Tag: Buddleja davidii
Oh, you weather!
Let’s start with, did I get out myself and photograph or video the occultation of Venus by the moon yesterday that I was alerting you of?
No. I mean, I did get out, and the day had been all nice and clear, but by the time of the occultation, the sky had produced thick yet wildly variable clouds that couldn’t make up their minds whether they wanted to be assholes or not. They apparently
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
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
Life on these Estates
Mostly trivia here, with a closing bit of amusement, but at least I’m posting some more. Now, if we could only get it to be something good…
Despite the up-and-down nature of the temperatures, actually requiring us to move a few things back into the greenhouse, many of the plants around Walkabout Estates are kicking it this spring. The largest butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii,)
Ticking away
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
Some spiders
While I have some video clips to edit together, that will take some time, and I already have these pics edited and ready to go, so we’ll have them first. Lucky us, eh?
First, we have a follow-up, rather badly outdated now, for one that was featured about a month ago. The white-banded crab spider (Misumenoides
Estate Finds XXXVII
Again, a little slow this week, finding mostly the same things that I’ve been seeing far too much of, and not seeing the things that i know are there, like the beavers – I keep finding evidence, but have yet to actually see one again. What we have this week are spiders, which is all the warning you get.
The coolest one, that I’d never seen before despite apparently being common,
Some night finds
Just a couple of things found while poking around at night, nothing earth-shaking.
The orphaned white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns were mentioned in the previous post, and we found that they are not only regular visitors, they sleep over from time to time. These were taken from the vicinity of the door to Walkabout Studios.
Notably, this is not with the long lens, but
Suddenly, autumn
Not really, but last night the temperature dropped more than it had in weeks, coupled with high humidity, and dew formed with a vengeance, which we also hadn’t seen in weeks – it doesn’t often hit the dewpoint overnight in summer here. And so, there were a couple of subjects to be found because of this.
The Girlfriend and I had seen this eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica)
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