Morel Mushrooms
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Four O’Clock stamen super-macro.
Sigma 150mm 2.8 EX Macro + Sigma 2x TC + 68mm Kenko extension tubes.
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The lunar eclipse from early this morning. Conditions were perfect – clear & calm with temps in the low 30s. The Cold Moon was full at 2:14 AM CST. The coyotes were howling and several times I heard the echo of an owl hooting in the slough down across the highway. I even saw a shooting star. Very satisfactory for an event which has not occurred in the last 456 years.
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A floating seed that was temporarily stuck on a very thin strand of web which is barely visible in the full-size version of this shot.
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Some people actually try to kill these things !!!
I just want to say thanks to those of you who still stop by here to check out my work. Once I get off this slow dial-up connection I’ll get back to visiting everyone’s blogs & websites more often.
I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. Cheers !!
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I found this small tree yesterday at Foothills Park that was scraped by deer and the sap had attracted Mourning Cloaks, Question Marks, a Red Admiral, and several flies.
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I was burning weeds yesterday when I snapped this shot with my Canon Powershot SD1000. It has no manual controls but I was able to manipulate the shutter speed by varying the amount of sky in the frame.
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This was the first Monarch I saw last spring. I posted an open-wing photo last May. I’ve wanted a photo of one of these tattered travelers for a long time.
The lens was partially obscured by a tree branch blowing in the wind. That’s why it looks green. Not exactly the effect I was going for, but I like it anway.
Terry, crowing his little heart out. He’s a nice rooster. He hardly ever attacks people, and even then they’re mostly just scared. Mostly.
I thought it was a puffball growing by my compost bin – until it popped and there was nothing inside. I’ve never seen anything like it.
A strange little puffball-type mushroom I found in my yard. If you know what it is, let me know.
I found this one when I was out mushroom hunting last May. It appears to be from the previous summer.
May 2007 was a very photographically diverse month for me – a grass fire, flooding, fighter planes, plus all the usual stuff. And I almost got a funnel cloud too !!
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Alright. It’s cold, windy, & gloomy outside and I don’t have anything new that’s worth uploading.
Let’s have another look at 2007 and a bunch of photos I never got around to posting…
Aside from Christmas, all I can remember about December 2007 is alot of ice & fog. How many ice storms were there ? Five or six ? I lost count.
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A Locust Treehopper (Thelia bimaculata) on a Black Locust tree in my yard. (That’s a thorn in the background.)
ISO 800
1/250
f/16
300 mm
Canon EOS-20D
Sigma 150 2.8 EX Macro + Sigma 2X TC
Sigma EM-140 DG Macro Flash
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These cicadas were in my yard a couple of nights ago. As numerous as they are, I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a pair mating.
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Parasitic wasp eggs on a Catalpa worm. This catalpa tree was full of them and there were about 20 hanging like this with eggs on them.
This was the most googled image on my old site so I thought I would post it again.
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