It was only after I zoomed in on the big screen that I realized he’d been grabbing airborne snacks and coming back to this perch to dine.
Silks
A noiseless, patient spider,
I mark’d, where on a little promontory it stood isolated;
Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament out of itself;
A Different Kind of Bear: Woolly
It’s sometimes hard to believe the stories about caterpillar swarms so large, their leaf crunching wakes people in the mornings …
A Jumper
This Red-Backed Jumping Spider was in “I’m outta here” mode before my lens even moved in.
59 Minutes with the Raynox
That means 59 minutes of lunch hour when I could have been eating, drinking, working, napping but was instead, roaming a garden with my FZ50 and Raynox in hand.
Little Flying Monkeys
Damselfly faces seem expressive — awesome, wide-eyed, bulbous monkey gazes …
The Silky Wonders of Wunderlich
Picking up from my previous post — about the rare and elusive Linyphia Vaudvillea … here are a few additional spider (Araneae) observations from our walk at Wunderlich Park in Woodside. I’ve perused countless field guides and websites on California spiders but am still unable to identify the aforementioned species. Other spiders and webs are…
Puttin’ on the Ritz . . . Spider Style
I didn’t actually see the Vaudevillian face as I shot the spider image (below). Hugh and I were wandering through Wunderlich Park in Woodside (California), impressed by the miles of spider silk, strung like hammocks over the forest. Some were laid in sheets, some were funnel webs. (I’ll write a bit more on the landscape…
Wasp Art
Wasp Nest – ©ingridtaylar I didn’t see it this way through the viewfinder — the aquarelle tone and texture of this wasp nest, clutching the painted boards. (Just as I didn’t see the pixie faceof a blue damselfly I’d been shooting over a pond — until I offloaded those giant orbs-for-eyes onto my Mac.) I…
