It’s always the ponds


There was supposed to be a different holiday in here today, but we can only have one holiday per day, according to the International Rules of Blog Holidays, and we’re forced to go with this one, which is nowhere near as much fun. I’m talking about Don’t Make The Big Change You Were Planning To Make Because Of A Pond Day… which, now read more

Living in the past XX


To me, this one just all came together nicely. The complementary colors of course, but the V-shape of the line of blossoms and the fernlike leaves working the corners, the short range of sharpness, and the position and lighting on the sweat bee just worked. A certain amount of this was serendipity, since I had only a moment to frame things while the bee was present, and was mostly read more

Who needs some color? Raise your hand


So, last night I finally got around to updating the Latest Images gallery, which had sat dormant for, seriously, don’t ask how long, mostly because I was posting all of my latest images instead. There’s nothing that said that I couldn’t put them in both places, for those who read more

Let’s do this by category

As I mentioned, I have more pics to put up and have been juggling time to try and get to them – not at all helped by the number of unforeseen circumstances that spring up on top of the routine things already taking up my time. So right now, I’m splitting up the posts by subject matter of the photos, and today is arthropod day.

My attempts to capture more Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) read more

Monday color 30


This Monday color comes from the same outing related here, as a member of the Halictidae family, otherwise known as sweat bees, partakes of the flower of a partridge pea plant (Chamaecrista fasciculata.) It’s funny – I grew up calling them sweat bees like everyone read more