friday's fringe 35 ~ Orb Assault!

while squatting to get this shot of the Banana spider (Golden silk orb-weaver)...

i realized how it looked pretty cool with that monstrous Orb

descending on our roof!

ARACHNID ATTACK!

Spider Invasion!

and for those of you who get a little creeped out by spiders...

here's a view of the morning crescent moon from the backyard.

10 december 2012

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”   

~Henry David Thoreau

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friday's fringe 34 ~ barking at the moon

while trimming back some dead palmetto leaves

we spotted the largest tree frog i've ever seen...

a Barking Treefrog.

you probably won't mistake their bark for the neighbor's dog...

sounds kind of like a smallish dog with a sore throat!

"Time's fun when you're having flies"

~Kermit the Frog

(this next shot makes me think of the commercial "Got Milk?")  woof.

Barking Treefrog/Hyla Gratiosa

although they usually do most of their barking at night,

we saw this one during the day.

he didn't bark at us...

OR the moon.

but he could have!

the moon framed by the trees at 7:30AM  on the 1st of december

(go HERE and scroll down to the link to listen to their bark)

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i'll be in cyberspace this weekend. finally.
since i've been driving #2 son to job at 5:30am,
my occasional before dawn blog reading is non-existent!
seeya out there. have a good one.

friday's fringe 33 ~ morphing the moon

i couldn't get a full moon picture wednesday night...too much cloud cover.

BUT thursday morning, the air was crisp & cool (46F) & clear!

my youngest son (28yrs) travis, is living with us (again).

i've been driving him up to the 'day labor' place every morning at 5:30

and sitting in the parking lot waiting to drive him to a jobsite.

i grabbed my camera.

my first picture was looking toward the road with the moon & star

still high enough in the sky for a good picture.

those WHITE LINES toward the bottom of the picture are cars rushing by.

zooming in on the moon...in it's magical fullness!

29 november 2012  at  5:25am

and now comes the FUN part.

moon morphs!

mosaic tiles

cubism style

heat map

aaaaaaah.  the purple moon.

embossed

and just plain dreamy...

"Under the full moon life is all adventure." 

~Sigurd Olson, The Singing Wilderness

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**all morphs on today's post done with gimp, a free image manipulation program**

ps - friday morning...after making my run to the Labor Force place...

will be my 'catch up' time.

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friday's fringe 32 ~ dangling...to the moon

~dangling~

while walking through the woods out back

i spotted a couple of dangling leaves...

hanging by a thread...probably a spider-web-thread!

(although in this first picture it looks to be a little thick,
but maybe the entire web collapsed in on itself & became one long thread.)

spinning...twirling in the breeze,

i waited for the wind to settle down.

“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower”

~Albert Camus

~to the moon~

you know 

i 

love

the moon.

this was taken on 21st of november @ 8:46pm.

it STILL amazes me how my 'point & shoot' Canon PowerShot 

can get a picture of the MOON...with CRATERS!!

my dream camera is a Canon Rebel.

i'll keep on dreaming...they're expensive.

i'm not complaining, i LOVE my PowerShot...

but sometimes i wish to get MORE MACRO than i'm able!

HEY,

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friday's fringe 31 ~ leaf.bug.milo remembered.

BIG rain dappled autumn leaf outside a client's home

a Two-striped Walking Stick.
AKA: devil's darning needle, musk mare, prairie alligator
seen at side of house, by the hose spigot.

~oOo~

i've been meaning to post this.

for milo...

cindy from  Bug Safari   emailed this to me after 'milo' passed away.

she had this idea to do a 'Dia de Los Muertos' style picture with milo happily climbing a tree.

she drew this using Sketch Pad on her ipad.  

isn't it perfect?  (me = bones - skulls - nature.  milo = trees - outdoors)

i LOVE it!!

i've already printed it out...will hunt down a nice frame...and hang it on the wall!

and  ANOTHER

heartfelt THANKS to chris at  Las Aventuras

for adding milo to the  'All Souls Procession' he participated in...

reflecting, remembering & honoring those we have loved & lost.

i mailed him a favorite toy & feather that milo used to play with...
and chris ceremoniously added them to the urn.

thank you cindy and chris!!  
both sam & i are honored & humbled...to know that you' went out of your way...
in milo's name!


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friday's fringe 30 ~ more zebras...morphed!

BUT FIRST...
just another picture of the magical moon...    =)

3  november  2012

“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”   

~Gandalf to the Great Eagles, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

(a polite way to say good-bye to an eagle)

~ oOo ~

there are so many Zebra Longwings 

(florida's state butterfly) 

fluttering

through the yard lately.  

i've snapped so many pictures of them!

might as well love 'em while i can, 'cause the temp's are starting to drop a bit.

(yesterday's high was 65 and the lows have dipped to high 30's to 40 (F))

the zebra longwings seem to really like the taste of the Elliot's Aster plant (a FL native), 

with its lavender flowers.

(they might not look lavender - my camera must be color blind. it never sees shades of purple.)

i saw FOUR zebras on this one plant...at one time!

unfortunately, no camera in hand.

so here's a THREEfer!

i did a little playing around with this TWOfer picture...

BOOSTED colors...

same photo, like an Oil...

well, that's it for now.

OH, NO IT'S NOT...

ONE more picture for the road!

(we took emo for his first short venture outside. here he is next to squatting sam.)

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“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” 

~Siddhārtha Gautama

friday's fringe 29 ~ yellow on pink

Cloudless Sulphur  (Phoebis Sennae)

feeding on a still flowering hibiscus flower.

“Butterflies and zebras 

And moonbeams and fairy tales 

That's all she ever thinks about 

Riding with the wind.” 

~Jimi Hendrix

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~XTRA~

emo...at 10 wks old

"i'll let laura loose in bloggerland after she finishes playing with me!"

friday's fringe 28 ~ lake collage & bye-bye bones!

YES, this is friday's fringe...on thursday.
but it IS friday somewhere...on the other side of the world.

tomorrow morning i have an app't at the dreaded dentist.
(last week a client gave me a mini twix bar. while eating it, i felt something hard between my teeth.
hmmmmmmm, a rock in my twix bar.

nope.  a tooth.  the one i had a root canal done on not too long ago.
it just broke off! shit! at the gum line! surgery tomorrow morn. double shit!!)

i've been pretty stressed.
a perfect thriller for halloween.
aaaaaaargh!!
FEAR!
(the one good thing is that i'll have to rest for a day...time to catch up with reading...)


back to the friday on thursday post...

last weekend...
we went camping/fishing to Rodman Dam/Reservoir (AKA Lake Ocklawaha)

SUNRISE on the lake

SO many pictures...thought i'd just do a collage

the lake: bald eagles, cormorants, anhingas, herons, sunrise, grackles, dragonflies, butterfly, egrets

CLICK for LARGER view

oOo

mr bOnes.  his final october post.

soon it'll be time for all his buddies to go back in the closet.

but mr bOnes will remain perched on the mantel- all year long.

he and his bony friends have been gathering...

telling ghostly stories...shaking their bones...pulling pranks

and just being a little mischievous before they head into hiding. 

“That cold ain’t the weather, that’s death approaching.”

30 Days of Night (2007)

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counting down...to...

ALL HALLOW'S EVE.  HALLOWEEN.  NIGHT OF THE SPIRITS.

HAVE A MAGICAL & SPOOKY NIGHT.

a new beginning. out with the old, in with the new.

remembering & honoring those that have passed on.