i raced outside last night, just in time to see the moon clear the tops of the trees.
this morning...hoping to get a closer picture as the moon descended to the west...
...it came out blurry...but i thought the branch in front of it...
looked like a claw!
i would've taken more pictures...but i just couldn't stop howling...
and i was having a tough time hanging on to the camera.
i knew this was as good a picture as i was gonna get!
~George Carlin
the full moon with the claw...
reminds me again that 'all hallows' eve' is sneaking in.
sam noticed this HUGE spider's web on the side of the house the other day...
yeah, i'd say we're getting in the halloween spirit...
while wandering around out back the other day...i ALMOST
walked right into this crab spider's web! usually my eyes are fixed on the ground...
luckily, i looked up at the last second...staring right into this little spider's face.
well, it's a good thing i keep my eyes glued to the ground...
not literally of course...it would be kind of hard to get any where at all
if my eyeballs were glued to the ground. could you actually do that?
i don't think i want to even think about the possibility...
anyway, i spotted something...whitish...thought it was a mushroom...
moved in for a closer look...
a TINY skull!!
i pulled a quarter out of my pocket to show how little it is.
it's a mole. those little critters that make mounds and tunnels all over your yard!
well, we don't have a 'yard'...it's mostly dirt...with patches of grass here and there...
and a few flower gardens bordered with old found bricks.
so the moles have a field day here. going this way and that...
until they meet their fateful end...a hawk...or owl...or maybe even milo?!
here's the underside. most of the molars still intact.
i looked around the skull and found a few other bones.
now i'm wondering if maybe this was an Owl Pellet...
that disintegrated...and these are the bones that were in it.
(i've found and dissected owl pellets before...and posted about it...)
so what's my fascination with bones?!
beats me!!
no, not beat me...i mean...i don't know.
i like how they feel in my hand. when i touch them i feel closer to the earth.
life. death. time. nature. connectedness. full circle.
weird?
no, what's weird...is that i make jewelry out of some of them.
i decorate them.
on second thought, that's not weird...tribes have done that...forever.
keeping with this unplanned darkish...moonlit...post...
here's a dainty little moth...
maybe an Owlet moth...due to the eye-spots?!
(i'm NOT a bug expert...so please...if i am ever wrong...PLEASE say so!)
and here's a very weird bug i spotted at night, outside, over the front window.
i had to use the flash...so he's really lit up! i had no idea what he was...
some kind of a beetle. but the way his head moved in and out...
reminded me of those little bobbing head dolls/dogs/toys!
i finally ID'd him...a Grapevine Beetle.
here's a chameleon...correct name, Anole...
ALMOST in the green phase.
he must've just climbed up there from the ground...
turning from brown to green!
before i head out of here...
i just wanted to say one more thing...
OUR BANANA PLANT HAS A FEW BANANAS!!
when i moved here 9 yrs ago, i brought this little baby banana plant with me.
it's sent out some shoots and more babies over the years...but this is the first time
it's flowered & has little bananas!! look at them!! they're so CUTE!! yeah!
i have so many weird mushroom pic's...AGAIN...
and the coolest grasshopper...more lizards...
next time.
Wolf is the Grand Teacher.
Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path
and seeking the ways of wisdom,
returns to share new knowledge with the tribe.
Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath.
When the Wolf walks by you - you will remember.
~Robert Ghost Wolf
have a safe journey & enjoy the ride!
laura
