Seeing Red
(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.
Stop! Letter Time!
There’s a reason Letters is its own category on this blog. It doesn’t take much to get me to write one. Politicians, preachers, editors, parole boards, if I got something to say, I say it. And in today’s episode I sat down at the keyboard this morning with issues about two articles from two very …
There Will Be Timelapse
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 …
A Dual-Species Exhibit
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 …
Hawk! Who Goes There?
I was alerted to its presence by a scree’ing mockingbird in the vicinity, but it wasn’t until I looked into the boughs of the camphor laurel across the street that I spotted the predator — a juvenile Cooper’s hawk — clutching in its talons what remained of an unfortunate pigeon: The heavily photoshopped image gets …
If This Doesn’t Brighten Your Day, You Need Help
Chances are what with the internut being what it is and all, I would have eventually stumbled across the video below. But because of the Blogfather Tony Pierce, who is always there to open a door for his readers and say “look inside and check this shit out now,” I got my day brightened that …
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Perchance To Dream
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 …