Here’s the fifth and final part of my favourite nature photos of 2011. Just some leftovers. If anyone can identify the unknown plants for me, I’d greatly appreciate it.
coyote
muntant red clover?
weird unknown plant
weird unknown plant with berries
These photos come from my following sets: Coyote: August 1st 2011, Nature: July 3rd 2011, Nature: June 28th 2011, and Nature: June 14th 2011.
Here is part 4 of my favourite nature photos of 2011. The cicadas never stopped making noise that year.
You can find more pictures from this set here: Nature: October 6th 2011
Here is part 3 of my favourite nature photos of 2011. I’m not sure what happened here. It wasn’t good. Ick.
dead flies and ladybugs
dead flies
dead flies and ladybugs
dead flies and ladybugs
dead flies and ladybugs
dead flies
dead flies and ladybugs
dead flies and ladybugs
dead flies and ladybugs
You can find more photos from this set here: Dead Bugs: July 6th 2011
Here is part 2 of my favourite nature photos of 2011. I got a little carried away with macro photography.
forget-me-nots
lilacs
apple blossoms
baby grapes
dead milkweed
pussy toes
apple blossoms with moth
burs
king devil buds
king devil blooms
red clover
english plantain
fleabane
bird's-foot trefoil
bladder campion
white clover
nodding thistle
nodding thistle
vetch
blueweed
yarrow
shamrocks
prunella
purple prunella
honeysuckle berries
bittersweet nightshade
milkweed flowers
unripe grapes
unripe raspberries
gooseberries
These photos come from my following sets: Nature: July 3rd 2011, Nature: June 28th 2011, Nature: June 17th 2011, Nature: June 14th 2011, and Nature: May 26th 2011.
Here is part 1 of my favourite nature photographs from 2011. The fact that I am posting them in March of 2012 has nothing at all to do with laziness. *shifty eyes*
I’m not afraid of spiders.
These photos come from my following sets: Nature: October
A fun little exercise: I lit a match with one hand and took a picture of it with the other.
Waiting in line took, in total, about 20 hours spaced out over 3 days, but, after 3 tries at The Santa Claw (a giant real-life claw game played over the internet), I finally won my prize!
My glorious prize came in this magical envelope! Oh, the excitement I had in opening this envelope!
And, what was in the wonderful envelope? Why, it was none other than this knobby ball! Which came deflated and I have no pump, thus, it will remain thusly.
By the by, there was a sticker on the envelope that said “made in North Pole”, but the ball says “Made in China” and the guys that run The Santa Claw, the Real Art Design Group, are based in Dayton, Ohio, so.., I’m not sure. Is the sticker supposed to imply that the envelope was made in the North Pole? It is a mystery.
This card also came in the mystical envelope. It reads:
LUCKY YOU! You stood in line, played The Santa Claw, and won this impressive knobby ball. Amazing that is just didn’t seem to make it on someone’s Christmas list this year, huh? Your pals: The Santa Claw.
All in all, apart from the hours of waiting in line, playing with The Santa Claw was pretty fun.
You can still play with The Santa Claw at thesantaclaw.com, but it looks like they are out of prizes. There’s no line anymore, though!
I AM SO SMART! I AM SO SMART! S-M-R-T!
Here is an apple crisp that I made. I was so excited about how delicious it was going to taste that I ended up eating some before I took the picture. And by “some” I actually mean “a lot”.
This is a photo I took of the deck this morning. It snowed over 18 inches overnight and there’s more snow expected for today. I’m staying inside. Let’s hope the power doesn’t get knocked out.