Either that or the Moth That Can Touch Its Tail To Its Head: (yeah, you’ll wanna click for the bigger picture) Looking at it from inside the kitchen this afternoon, at first glance I thought it was some shmutz on the window screen (for scale reference it takes about 18 of those screen squares to …
(click here to view the timelapse file) Well I thought all was fine and dandy like cotton candy with the cam and computer, when I powered everything down at 7 a.m. this morning. But instead of some 20 hours of timelapse footage, unbeknownst to me the set-up crapped out after only 2.5 hours — which …
(click for the bigger picture) Known as red skimmers, this dragonfly’s common name is never so inadequate as when one is found in the backyard glowing like an ember sunbathed by the mid-afternoon rays.
For the couple weeks that our sunflowers have been going bloomin’ crazy, I’ve kept saying I should set up the cam all up in one’s face and get me an elongated timelapse — and then promptly ignored myself. Until today. If I were really sharp I would’ve set it up first thing in the morning …
After Susan got home last night she found the breakfast nook area rug bunched up and when she went to straighten it out she found a lizard’s tail underneath it. Curious and concerned as to whether the rest of the lizard was inside the house either intact or in separate parts, she soon found our …
On my before-bed check of the flower patch last night I found this bee nestled and entirely still in the center of that newly bloomed lemon queen sunflower. As it was well after 10 p.m. and I’ve rarely — if ever — seen bees out after dark, I thought rather sentimentally that it might have …
This morning while doing my regular backyard waterings ‘n dogpoop scoops I found not only some early blooms on our neighbor’s San Pedro cactus, but in one of them a busy carpenter bee. I managed somehow without falling or without to unsteady a hand to cantilever myself across the the tortoise hutch with my cam …