Posted in aquarium, books, family, photography on January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The first residents of our new tank have moved in: five zebra danios which will kick off the first round of tank cycling. On deck: a small shoal of neon tetras, a pair each of dwarf flame gouramis and dwarf coryadoras. Once the tank matures a little, we’ll add a handful of ghost shrimp. [...]
Posted in food, photography on December 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Just uploaded a batch of pictures to the flickr account. Some of these go back a few weeks.
These are some yeast-risen cornbread muffins we made from a recipe at the wonderful 101 Cookbooks blog. They turned out lovely, and had that great leavened texture of white bread…but they were cornbread, which makes for a nifty [...]
Posted in nature, photography on September 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Pennsylvania Leatherwing (Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus)
Black and Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia), with an unlucky Skipper. This particular spider had also snared 2 full-sized Monarch butterflies and an adult dragonfly, which ought to give you some idea regarding its size. It was big. Real big.
Katydid, unknown species
Another Argiope. This one was near my in-law’s house. Not as [...]
Posted in nature, photography on August 19, 2007 | No Comments »
A few more shots from in and around the basil plant.
I had thought this was a lacewing or some kind of beetle, but it’s an Ailanthus Webworm Moth. Go figure!
A much more cooperative Gray Hairstreak. I had mis-identified this as a Banded Hairstreak yesterday, but it stayed put long enough today for a positive ID.
Here [...]
Posted in nature, photography on August 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have a minor predilection for photographing insects - they are often convenient targets of opportunity and most of them do not seriously creep me out. I was walking past our little herb patch and noticed that the enormous basil plant was teeming with flying insects. I counted no less than a dozen different species, [...]
Posted in food, photography on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When life hands you 101 degrees, make sun tea. We’re making sun tea while we wait for the air conditioning repairman to show up. OK, I’m making it. The chillun are in the wading pool.
This tea, by the way, is rooibos, which I think is so-so when it’s hot but fantastic when it’s iced with [...]
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