Took a walk down back with the lensbaby macro lens. Lots of pictures: ( Read more... )

Yesterday Dave and I ended up hiking with the dogs in the woods by Lamartine. He wanted to see if he could find and show me some Lady Slipper flowers that had grown in years past there. We didn't find any but we did find the leaves of some. Either we were too early or else those plants didn't have the energy to put out flowers this year. Some ( Read more... )

Today is my catch-up day for pictures I've been taking.

Wednesday evening we went to Chloe's so we could help plant her blueberry bushes.


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Took Rainy for a short jaunt along Splane Run at Two Mile yesterday morning when I dropped off the recyclables.


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I woke up at 3. Went back to bed again but couldn't sleep. Then I remembered that I wanted to make those raisin bran cookies. So I got up and made them. Eating one now. Pretty good. They have a bit of a different taste because I used olive oil instead of butter. Once that is identified then they taste okay. My dad used to get up in the middle of ( Read more... )

I'll put it behind a cut for people who don't like spiders. I found a spider for macro photography that would hold still for me in my goatshed - the shed skin of what I think is a wolf spider. ( Read more... )

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I think I could have had much more satisfying macro pictures with the extension tubes if I had put the slightest one (12mm) on instead of the strongest (36mm). Some pictures from my hike at Two Mile this morning: ( Read more... )

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