I found this guy in his little sleeping bag on the south side of the house. Other than being fairly certain that it’s some kind of swallowtail, and absolutely certain that he’s alive in there (and very active when touched!) I don’t know who he is, or whether he intends to spend the winter there, […]

Too much labour, not enough days, and few things worth photographing, so most of these aren’t even from the weekend, but still worth posting, I think. I haven’t seen many Monarchs this year (some on the volunteer Mexican sunflower on the south side), and only a couple of caterpillars, but I’m pretty sure at least […]

I found this guy (dying) when he crash-landed on the patio last Saturday night. I knew it was a cicada, of course, and I’m actually not sure what prompted me to walk over and look at “yet another dog-day cicada”, but I’m glad I did because it wasn’t just another dog-day cicada. It was a […]

I’m not as far behind as usual, but I do have a few things that I’ve meant to post. Just a very pretty flower after the last time it rained. Not hard to tell why they’re named, ‘Bright Lights’, is it? Bad lighting because it was getting dark, but a flash would’ve ruined it. Big […]

Fish Bait gets his own post because he spans days. Plus, he’s pretty cool. I was coming back from the Post Office on 11 July when I noticed a big, fat caterpillar strolling across the sidewalk. I recognized it right away as one of the big sphinxes, but wasn’t sure which one. I brought him […]

Again, these will be out of order because I’m still (always) catching up, but whatever–at least they’ll be posted. I saw this big guy fly under the patio, and I thought he was likely some kind of underwing, but I still had to go and look because there are sooooo many underwing moths, and so […]

These are probably out of order, but I’m so goddamned far behind at this point (like a month behind!), I’m not sure it matters that much. Anyway… So, in spite of how difficult it is to determine the gender of a goldfish, and especially a lone goldfish, I can state with authority that Sprize is […]

So yeah, I’ve been lazy. Phlox from 07-07 Cool looking black pods on Baptisia, also from 07-07 Cliche frog from 07-08 Very fat, eggbound Sprize, 07-07. Still looks much the same, but at least she’s not dead. Oh, and I guess she’s a girl. 🙂 Flowery flowers, 07-09  

I had the day off yesterday, so I spent the vast majority of it, working on a proper nursery for the Roxettes. It’ll be somewhere between 60 days and next spring before they hatch (assuming they do hatch), but average is 70 days, so there was no hurry, but I had the extra day, and […]

Just a few shots I took…whenever I shot the video of BR and therefore had my camera on a tripod outside. P wanted a picture of a Sock, and then there were some hoodlum friends of Charlotte’s (though not Charlotte herself) down in the back forty. Not great pictures because Sox are small and wary, […]