So, the other morning, getting into my car to go to work, I notice that there is a small cloud of teensy, white moths fluttering about.  In particular, they are flying in and around and landing on the dwarf Japanese maple tree right next to my driveway.  Self, says I, these are cute moths and drifting around this tree like this, they look just like ( Read more... )

This weekend was much more straightforwardly good than last.


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So, here are spider and harvestman pictures from December.


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In knitting news, I am up to row 39. This is about half-way through the lace border that goes along the bottom edges of the shawl. Lace rows go slowly. Even with decreasing on every row, rows are still over 300 stitches wide. However, once I finish the lace border, there is minimal lacework on the back and things should speed up significantly ( Read more... )

Here's another tiny spider found inside the house:

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Another inside the house spider:

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One of the things which convinced me to go ahead and get the new macro lens is that the SubG and I were talking a lot about the spiders inside the house and expressing an interest in identifying them. You need to know what their eyes look like for this. So, we wanted to be able to take pictures of spider eyes. So far, we've been only minimally ( Read more... )