Photography

My security blanket is my camera. I found this little lady on my door jam this morning, but was afraid to try to step on her in my barely-there sandals, so I just instructed the kids to keep their distance and I’d deal with her after I’d taken them to school. But even with shoes on I was too scared to do it. I’ve been bit by a black widow spider before and it was anything but a good time. So I sprayed her with windex (of all things) and hoped for the best. When we all got home from school again, there she was waiting for us.

And yet I was still afraid. So what do I do but whip out my little camera and start taking pictures?

Black Widow Spider - contrary to popular belief, her red spot is on her belly, not her back. But if I'm too afraid to squish her, what am I doing taking photos? This was done with an Elph no less, 3x zoom

Then a cubscout showed up at our doorstep and squished her without a word. What is wrong with me? :-p

Here’s a bee making sure we’ll have seeds to plant from Ethan’s awesome sunflower:

Cool orangey-red and yellow bee all pollened up..

The kids are very excited about planting a row of these in our garden next spring. Here’s hoping they’ll actually work.

What is this? A goathead? A sticker-weed? Punctureweed? Thorn plant? Professor Harris, who taught my Biology this past semester, said that some people call it a Caltrop, but I think the scientific name is most appropriate.

Tribulus Terrestris… Tribulation of the Earth. Isn’t it the truth?  And yet when I hear the word Tribulation, it’s typically at church, and also typically associated with learning. We’re supposed to learn from our trials, right? The only thing I’ve learned from this plant is that there is most certainly Evil in this world.

Tribulus Terrestris

I have tribulations all over my shoes!

Bought myself a box of stress relief

Stress relief in a convenient 64 count box

Ever noticed in the movie that Horton’s clover looked much more like a thistle? I painted a clover in class today and it looks nothing like the clover in the movie. But this thistle I found on my way home does:

This reminded me of the days when crayola made a thistle colored crayon, too. Which incidentally led me to their crayon color history page, so I'm linking it.

I’ll scan the clover painting when I get it back