Just can’t help myself from sharing when I find a nice still from the timelapses I do of the sunflowers in my backyard patch (click it for the bigger picture): As to why I timelapse? It’s all part of making my voluntary observations for the Great Sunflower Project more efficient. Rather than physically park myself …
There I was sun-dappled and slaving away outside on the laptop, the tracks of a CD of Spanish guitar music filling the space with sound from the two wireless outdoor faux-rock speakers I’m so glad I bought last week. Two cats were napping opposite me in patio chairs and a drowsy Ranger dog snoozed at …
Working outside in the satellite office (i.e., the backyard) this afternoon I was joined by officemates Pepper and Ranger, the latter whom took full advantage of the former’s position in a patio chair (as well as his predilection for cleanliness) for a little inter-species grooming. Enjoy.
Wiping up the counter after doing the dishes yesterday morning, one could almost hear the cartoonish tire-screeching sound as I stopped the paper towel literal millimeters from this leggy leeeetle fella I saw parked there. In a world full of people who have 1,276 more important things to do than waste time over trespassing insects, …
I wonder what the ultimate result will be from the wingbeat of this swallowtail who, before it gently fluttered away, amazingly let me get my camera all up in its probiscus as it rested near our garage this morning:
Sorry for the redundancy. I blame Ranger. Who snores, by the way.
This was the sunflower whose main bloom that the renegade squirrels took left me shaking fists at the rascally rogues. But one of the beautiful aspects of sunflowers is when they lose their heads, often times they’ll just shrug off the setback and make more. In this case, this subsequent flower pictured is one of …