{"id":32433,"date":"2022-07-31T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32433"},"modified":"2022-07-31T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:23:44","slug":"exactly-as-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/07\/exactly-as-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Exactly as scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since today is Thin Out The Blog Folder Day<\/strong>, I have several images that I was saving just to have something to post for the holiday, because normally, there are no excess images in there – I’m remarkably<\/em> efficient in my writing, and if I prepare an image for the blog, you know damn well it will be uploaded without delay. So let’s see what I chose, months ago, to save for the holiday.<\/p>\n

\"whitebanded
It was back in March when I found this, so you know I plan ahead. It was very small and the detail images that I have aren’t exacting, but it appears this is a juvenile whitebanded fishing spider (Dolomedes albineus<\/em>,) pretty well camouflaged on a fencepost. I wouldn’t even say that the leg span exceeded 20mm – they get a whole lot larger<\/a>. Let’s take a closer look at that coloration:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"whitebanded
You gotta admit, that’s a pretty good job of looking like moss and lichen, so, go natural selection!<\/p>\n

\"female
In April I did a quick fartsy-ish shot of Buffy the female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos<\/em>) and her brood, down from the nine that hatched – I’m pretty sure that four of these were the ones that followed the beaver and its branch back in that video<\/a>, but don’t ask me which one abstained.<\/p>\n

The next four images are from a trip to the NC Botanical Garden<\/a> in May – I was planning on returning, but it just hasn’t happened yet (see repeated comments about heat, and that fact that it’s usually Monday when I feel like going and they’re closed Mondays.)<\/p>\n

\"red-bellied
This smaller-than-average red-bellied watersnake (Nerodia erythrogaster<\/em>) was chillin’ suspended in the limbs, if you can call them that, of some small plant alongside the water. The access to frogs was trivially easy, so I imagine it’s quite a bit bigger now. The snake, I mean – the plants only eat frogs in winter…<\/p>\n

\"multiple
We’ve seen a closer look at some of these rhododendron flowers back then<\/a>, but this image shows off the health and symmetry of the flower clusters. I rarely see displays this photogenic, with no dead flowers or notched petals to be found – as long as you’re not looking at the leaves. I said don’t<\/em> look at the leaves! Geeezzz<\/em>…<\/p>\n

\"prickly
This is a little more notable in that the NC Botanical Garden only features plants native to North Carolina, and this is indeed a native cactus:<\/strong> a prickly pear (Opuntia humifusa<\/em>.) Contrary to appearances, that spiked pad does not<\/em> slap down and whack birds feeding at the flower. Yet. Give it time – go natural selection!<\/p>\n

\"unidentified
I have no idea what these are, but they were trying to hide from me under the leaves – they should know better. I picked an angle to give a little more drama to the pic. Whaddya mean, “This isn’t what I think of when I hear ‘drama’ in regards to nature photography”? What does it make you<\/em> think of?<\/p>\n

\"great
While I was stalking the beavers one evening (we’ve left the botanical garden now,) a great blue heron (Ardea herodias<\/em>) was watching me suspiciously and, I thought, a little rudely. I’m sorry, those leggings do not<\/em> go with that thong…<\/p>\n

\"raindrops
Same pond, same day, just the other end – a recent rain left some drops suspended in the needles of a bald cypress (Taxodium distichum<\/em>.) This is High Fart, this is.<\/p>\n

And finally,<\/p>\n

\"North
I took a few captured frames from video clips to use with the latest beaver post (as well as, naturally, this carefully-planned holiday) and decided on a different image back then, leaving this one for today. I can safely vouch that that is not a harmonica. Yet. Go natural selection!<\/p>\n

Okay, that cleans those out, and I can assure<\/em> you that no stray or older images remain in the blog folder. Professionalism, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since today is Thin Out The Blog Folder Day, I have several images that I was saving just to have something to post for the holiday, because normally, there are no excess images in there – I’m remarkably efficient in my writing, and if I prepare an image for the blog, you know damn well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2701,451,5406,4760,6847,69,2700,3432,4784,6849,6848,3433,6761,5407,6845,6846],"class_list":["post-32433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anas-platyrhynchos","tag-ardea-herodias","tag-bald-cypress","tag-castor-canadensis","tag-dolomedes-albineus","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-mallard","tag-nerodia-erythrogaster","tag-north-american-beaver","tag-opuntia-humifusa","tag-prickly-pear","tag-red-bellied-water-snake","tag-rhododendron-blooms","tag-taxodium-distichum","tag-thin-out-the-blog-folder-day","tag-whitebanded-fishing-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}