Thursday, my friend, Andrea came for a visit. She stayed the night and spent most of Friday with us. We stole some plants from Stanley Street house and burned webworms at Sundog House. The webworms this year are very bad, especially in our walnut trees. So, we sprayed them down with lighter fluid, then lit them up. Whoosh! Most satisfying, if you ( Read more... )

At my birthday party, I got a book, Butterflies of Oklahoma, Kansas, and North Texas, published in 2004. It's an awesome book, and it has distribution maps showing the counties for which they have records of the species. I've been going through my butterfly pics, and I've already found two species that I've photographed in counties for which they ( Read more... )

I've been tinkering with making personalized 8X10 "posters" for Christmas presents this year based on some of my photos.  Similarly, I've experimented with some of my bug pics and a series of scenic travel posters.

There is a garden store in town that has expressed a willingness to look at my bug pics in order to consider selling them, and I'm ( Read more... )

So, I took a day of vacation today.  There will be hell to pay tomorrow, because I'll be pressed to finish a project that really needs to be completed by Thursday, but I'll figure something out.

I had a fun dream last night in which a shiny, silver ball came crashing to earth like a meteor.  It was about the size of an exercise ball.  My family ( Read more... )

With the receding water, there was lots of mud.  Which meant there were lots of fun animals tracks to be seen.


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I got a few pictures of butterflies on the lilac bush today.


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More butterfly pictures (BIG)

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A few more butterfly pictures I've taken over the past couple of weeks:

Butterfly 1 (a sulphur of some kind?)

Swallowtail (a female Black Swallowtail?)

Monarch

Butterfly 4 (a Common Checkered Skipper, perhaps?)

Butterfly 5 (a Bordered Patch?)

I have many more, but I haven't uploaded them yet. 

My joints suck.  I spent most of the weekend on the sofa lying on a hot pad because my lower back was in excruciating agony bothering me.

Bahumbug.

And speaking of bugs...

Yet another butterfly pic (I believe it is a Gulf Fritillary)

A goldenrod soldier beetle

White-lined sphinx hummingbird moth

Gulf fritillary

Butterfly from another angle

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Well, it wasn't a great weekend. I've come down with a cold, and, sadly, it took me a while to figure this out. Gee, I feel lousy... did the new meds stop working already? Nope, you're just sick, dummy ( Read more... )