I’ll start this month’s post with some friendly bug photos, and end with some scary ones (you spider-phoebes probably will want to skip the last few). I don’t know who this guy is, but he posed for me, so I like him: Bees are trickier, as they are constantly bumbling about, not standing still: But…
I’ve been saving my credit card cash back bonus for 10+ years, waiting for something special to spend it on. Behold … the ‘free’ camera: An Olympus OMD EM-10, along with 3 lenses, zoom (150 –> 600 mm equivalent), macro/portrait (120 mm, f2.8), and a portable pancake (28->84 mm). It is a ‘micro-4/3’ camera, so…
Challenge of the month: wear a stinky boot over your head and pick up a dog toy at the same time. I’ve seen it done: We had wind blow down some copper flashing off the garage onto the deck: I enlisted the help of my handy handyperson to put it back up: I took an…
Big fire downtown last week, 150 foot flames! This is as seen from our window, 2 miles away: A drugged up electrician torched 4 story wooden apartment under construction, for unknown reasons. They had 4 big ladder fire trucks, one at each corner, and managed to keep it from spreading: It was so scary, some…
We just finished eating this guy, a blue chicken: I think our chance of survival is pretty good, but just in case, figured I better post this month’s pictures. Remember last month’s snowman? He spent the last month evolving. First we added a bunch of mostly random appendages: Then I hooked up a hose with…
Warning, attack of a black and white fur ball is about to commence. It starts innocently enough, with a cuddly, peaceful, couch creature, fresh from a nap: And then he wakes up: And there is no stopping him: We learned a lot this month. How to get shots: How to go for a harness walk:…