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 …
She’s not the first to go. Others in the sunflower patch with petals clamped and far from unfurled have been decapitated before her, but she was the first to go in full and fantastic bloom. When I was confronted with this end result done last night no doubt by the neighborhood raccoon, I was at …
Suffer yet another sunflower post, won’t you? This time around, it’s not just something amazing about the flora I found, but rather the discovery of an opportunistic hunter making its home on one of the blooms. Behold the goldenrod crab spider (click for the bigger picture): At first I was blown away considering the odds …
Yeah, yeah… again with the sunflowers. Susan posted a couple awesome shots of one the first bees to dive into our sunflowers when she got home yesterday. This morning before leaving for work I found one digging in and couldn’t get an in-focus macro image of the critter despite repeated attempts. So I flipped the …
Instead of a wide shot showing a whole lotta nuthin’ going on outside, this morning I zoomed across the backyard to two of the first-blooming sunflowers: The latest image in a steady progression of pretty much the same dang thing can be viewed here on the Webcam page.
I just get speechless chills attempting to comprehend how from a tiny simple seed — one of a bagful sent us by my friend Jo — planted two months ago, sprung forth this complex and magnificent six-foot-tall example of glorious awesome. It is a miracle.
If you follow this blog, you know I make it a point to offer assistance to stray dogs I encounter on my bikings around town. Birds? Not so much. Not for lack of compassion as for lack of opportunities. But I had one this morning. Biking in to work along the Ballona Creek Bikeway beneath …