Why you like that?

Seriously, what is it with anoles and their sleeping positions?


This is far from the first time finding one here, but the position was so perfect this particular evening.


Look at those toes. Though you’d think that getting, you know, on top would be more comfortable and less likely to fall off, but then you wouldn’t be thinking like an anole. At the very least, read more

A few quick portraits

Just a handful of wildlife portraits obtained within the past few days – they mostly speak for themselves.

How long has it been since we’ve had an arthropod? Too long?


I said it was misty last night, and you didn’t believe me. This katydid did, however.


This Canada goose was waiting for me to finish distributing corn so it could take a break from chowing on pond weeds. read more

Nominal nominal nominal

So, [you ask because you’re following everything I post with due excitement] how did Monday morning’s pursuit of the Leonids and aurora borealis go? And I, being the suspicious type that tries to detect subtle impish questions that you already know the answer to, pause just long enough to convey this suspicion before plowing ahead anyway.

In short, no better than any other time I’ve read more

Life in the wild

To say that the property is littered with lizards is understating things to a serious degree, since they can be seen nearly everywhere when the day is warm enough and the sun is out, and I’m used to seeing them scampering away around the edges of the house, shed, and greenhouse – in fact, I have to regularly check the shed to see who’s gotten locked inside because, if the door read more

A batch of autumnal monochroma

“Wait, monochrome?” you say, “As in, black and white? Al, you fucking moron, fall is the time to exploit the colors, not eliminate them entirely. What, are you trying to be avant-garde or poetically ironic or something equally spastic?”

Which hurts, I admit it, even when I wrote it myself. But I saw the possibilities of some of these, which worked better than most of what read more

It’ll taper off

I’m in a rut and I know it – there’s not a lot I can do about it, but there’s content at least, by a real human being too. Soon enough, these subjects won’t be visible for a while. I think.

First though, we revisit the end of month abstract – one of them, anyway. On the night that a persistent mist hung in the air, making the headlamp appear to be shining through read more

Kill the stage lights on October

Yes, we’ve reached the end, which should be plentiful obvious if you’re in the US at least, as the frivolous but nonetheless enjoyable holiday rolls in. As we discovered last year, we see practically no Trick-or-Treaters here at Walkabout Estates Plus, which is kind of a shame – we’ll see what happens this evening.

But the End-Of-Month Abstract waits for no one! Well, except read more

Sorting finds n+14

Finished another sorting job last night, 1,600+ images, and so another load of sorting finds, pics that weren’t featured at the time that they were taken, is now awaiting our attention. We’ll do these in chronological order.


The camellia trees/bushes/whatevers, for some reason, aren’t as popular sleeping spots for the Carolina anoles (Anolis carolinensis) read more

Mum’s the word

All right, it’s been long enough since the last one, so we can get back to this saga from a few days back.

The Girlfriend bought a selection of chrysanthemums, but before they were planted they were clustered together on the front lawn, and it wasn’t long at all before the Carolina anoles (Anolis carolinensis) discovered the charms of these. In going past one afternoon, I spotted read more

Nowhere is safe!

In the past two days, I’ve gotten a shitload of images, at least four post’s worth, so I’ll be working my way down through them over the next few days (hopefully without adding too many as I go.) Right now, we’ll stick to a minor bit of drama.

Going past the fireplace last night, I thought something looked off, and a closer look revealed why.


Not really sure read more

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