Didn’t catch the launch of the Atlas 5 rocket out of  Vandenberg AFB last night, but I managed to capture Pepper’s pretty much daily post-breakfast routine in which after finishing eating he crosses from his bowl onto the stovetop and then jumps the gaping 3-foot maw between it and the kitchen island.
The Natural History Museum’s Spider Pavilion doesn’t open up for a few more days  so in the meantime if you’re into arachnids like I am why wait? Just come on over to our house and see this magnificent monster who’s set up housekeeping over the north side walkway. It was a few days ago when …
Had an awesome time exploring Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park these last few days. Together Susan and I took about 2,000 photos so while we sort through all that, in the meantime here’s a couple vid clips of the local wildlife we awesomely encountered: On Friday night, we were visited by a bat at …
I first heard its unique and loud call from inside the house and after the third sounding came to the bay window in the dining room to see what I could see, which was nothing because it clammed up for whatever reason. Then I saw the way the afternoon sunlight was hitting the few remaining …
Literally moments after Susan had left this morning for her regular salon visit, a strange cat sound issues forth from the kitchen area and I arrive from the study to find a nice-sized alligator lizard on the floor bracketed on either side by Pepper and Ranger who are both looking down at it rather tentatively. …
Made with the Twitcast app on my iPhone propped against a beer can.
Arachnophobes beware! I finally timed it right and captured the largest of the many orb weavers in our backyard this morning building its new web. This timelapse at a frame a second, captures about an hour’s worth of webspinning.