I bet it’s exactly the same one, too. Heh.
This one flew into my open car window as I was arriving at work this morning. It found its way to the passenger headrest by the time I got stopped.
Fast friends.
Wow, how terrifying would these things be if they were ten feet tall and fifty feet long?
Look who was waiting for me when I came out to lunch today!
This is a species of Magicicada, and part of Brood XIX. It just hatched, almost certainly this week, from an egg laid in 1998. How cool is that? They’ll only be here about a month, and they don’t bite, sting, spit, or anything else bad. So feel free to have a good close look at them. You won’t see another one around here until 2024.
The boys’ fall break was today and yesterday, so we’ve been in Gulf Shores since Friday night. This post appears as we’re headed back, probably not far from the Bates House of Turkey for lunch. The Gulf was as startlingly clear and beautiful as I’ve ever seen it. We saw stingrays and dolphins the whole [...]
A common buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) came and posed for me this afternoon. I could get some great swallowtail shots right now, if they’d ever stop to rest. I also enjoyed this one, though. I hope you have a good weekend.
So Lea emailed me this afternoon to ask if I’d seen the spider by the Japanese maple when I was home for lunch. I hadn’t, but her description (and the less-than-optimal look at her photo on my phone) made me think it was probably our old friend Argiope aurantia (aka the yellow and black garden [...]
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