Tuesday, August 14, 2007
spiderling.... maybe a young orb weaver?
spiderling.... maybe a young orb weaver?
two tiny spiders today.... well this one wasn't so tiny.... but one was on my door knob when i got home... it was not a familiar sort to me, but i took a stick and he crawled onto it and i put him on my orchid cactus (which is about to flower, btw!!) and then i went on inside.....
then, when i was in the dining room, i saw a pair of shoes i needed to move, so i bent down to get them, and i spied this unusual spiderling on the blind....
hhmm.. two unusual spiders in one day, 15 or so minutes apart.... so i consulted an oracle...... yes, i did. something needs my attention.
it might be that i am in need of creating something.... both young-appearing spiders, the door knob one webbed the stick and bungeed into the orchid cactus.... the blind surfer 'looks' like it could be a mini one of those giant, beautiful orb weavers i've seen occaisionally that create such amazing webs......
or.... i could be in for entanglements of some sort..... but i would think i'd run into some sort of webbery and get all ickified from it, if that were the case....
so i choose to believe i might need to be creating something..... ahhh!! i know what it is! it's my soon to be unfolding new job..... the one that's just been 'created' that i will be the first one ever in it....... yeah!
Monday, July 23, 2007
mama spider
I was watering the garden.....and i spied this spider running along for safety.....she was carrying her egg sac.....and she so kindly paused to allow me to get this photo of her... soon the egg will spill forth dozens of tiny spiders who will hitch a ride on their mama's back... have you ever seen that? it's an amazing sight to see.....
best viewed LARGE
best viewed LARGE
another fabulously beautiful butterfly
The Butterfly Haus at Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg, Texas, is worth visiting. Check them out..... www.wildseedfarms.com
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
It Is Difficult to Admire.....
the intricately hand-carved ivory tusks of a formerly living majestic mammal depicting a long dead asian empress and emperor when smaller humans are loudly whispering come here come here come here (and i kid you not one of those smaller humans JUST NOW hollered come here come here as i was typing those very words)
but i digress....
i'm thinking the enormous, majestic, _living_ mammal might have been proud to sport those amazingly carved tusks, if only someone had been nice enough to ask.
go see these tusks at the Texas Tech Museum. I promise it will be worth it.
I can't even find a photo online that does these two magnificently carved tusks an iota of justice.
but i digress....
i'm thinking the enormous, majestic, _living_ mammal might have been proud to sport those amazingly carved tusks, if only someone had been nice enough to ask.
go see these tusks at the Texas Tech Museum. I promise it will be worth it.
I can't even find a photo online that does these two magnificently carved tusks an iota of justice.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Spiders have a Sense of Humor.....
clever spiders have a way of dissuading persistent paparazzi like me....
they jump on your camera lens to try to scare hell out of you!
the kids got a good laugh out of it anyway :)
click there to read about it...
this is what he was doing before i so rudely disturbed him...eating lunch....damn... he might be related to Brad Pitt...
get it? that's a paparazzi joke.... :) come on!
they jump on your camera lens to try to scare hell out of you!
the kids got a good laugh out of it anyway :)
click there to read about it...
this is what he was doing before i so rudely disturbed him...eating lunch....damn... he might be related to Brad Pitt...
get it? that's a paparazzi joke.... :) come on!
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
A Strange Little Dream
Last night I had this crazy dream… unlike any that I've ever had before…I read online a few weeks ago about the cicadas emerging this year and I just kind of glanced around some of the news articles… like the one that mentions that zoo animals are all excited because these cicadas taste so good and they're a beneficial addition to the animals' diets....
So anyway…. I haven't really had cicadas on my mind other than that, so the dream I had was kinda strange….well, here goes….
I was visiting my friend that lives at Ransom Canyon. His house has a back yard that starts out kind of flat and then climbs into the wall of the canyon at a steep slope…. It's not particularly landscaped intricately, but in my dream, as we're standing there in the back yard talking, a large cicada comes whirring by, all around our heads a couple of times, and lands on the ground near us, where there are three stump-like protrusions coming up from the ground, surrounded by a rocky planter. It seemed like the stumps looked like small trees or some sort of cactus that had been cut back…they were in a triangle pattern.
The cicada started going around and around in the dirt around one of the stumps. Pretty soon it had uprooted the stump at the top of the triangle. While it was doing it's little 'job', I remember feeling like the ground beneath my feet was shaking and vibrating heavily. A very odd, powerful feeling… like a jackhammer but less intense.
Suddenly, the stump rolled off the planter and fell out of sight. Then the cicada started whirring again in the center of the planter between the two remaining stumps, but this time it was digging straight down. I could still feel the ground vibrating. I looked at my friend and he started smiling and then I woke up. I felt like I could still feel the vibration in my feet and legs.
It was a very strange feeling.
That dream is puzzling me….. any ideas?
So anyway…. I haven't really had cicadas on my mind other than that, so the dream I had was kinda strange….well, here goes….
I was visiting my friend that lives at Ransom Canyon. His house has a back yard that starts out kind of flat and then climbs into the wall of the canyon at a steep slope…. It's not particularly landscaped intricately, but in my dream, as we're standing there in the back yard talking, a large cicada comes whirring by, all around our heads a couple of times, and lands on the ground near us, where there are three stump-like protrusions coming up from the ground, surrounded by a rocky planter. It seemed like the stumps looked like small trees or some sort of cactus that had been cut back…they were in a triangle pattern.
The cicada started going around and around in the dirt around one of the stumps. Pretty soon it had uprooted the stump at the top of the triangle. While it was doing it's little 'job', I remember feeling like the ground beneath my feet was shaking and vibrating heavily. A very odd, powerful feeling… like a jackhammer but less intense.
Suddenly, the stump rolled off the planter and fell out of sight. Then the cicada started whirring again in the center of the planter between the two remaining stumps, but this time it was digging straight down. I could still feel the ground vibrating. I looked at my friend and he started smiling and then I woke up. I felt like I could still feel the vibration in my feet and legs.
It was a very strange feeling.
That dream is puzzling me….. any ideas?