Sunday, July 10, 2011

What sticks

Well, seeds. Seeds stick. This is a picture of my legs covered with grass seeds. I did try to get a picture of the grass stalks that are covered with these little black seeds, but I am still having an amazing amount of difficulty getting this camera to focus on anything in "macro" mode.
And that includes this other picture of a deer. I saw it and took a picture but forgot to take the camera off "macro" mode and so it is pretty fuzzy. Sigh. Oh well. If you squint really hard you can see an orange blur black there in the green. That's the deer. There were several. You'll have to take my word for it.

The seeds stick and sometimes I wear them for hours after I get home because I get distracted by other things, like eating breakfast and watering the garden and stopping sweating. And then I'll have to drive somewhere and it'll be while I'm waiting in line at the checkout counter or maybe while I'm pumping gas or visiting friends that I'll look down and realize my legs are covered with the detritus picked up from walking in the woods. If I walk on the beach I get legs that are covered with tiny shells. My legs are magnets for small things that long to travel. I don't mind.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

The quick brown fox(es) that got away

I could kick myself today because the camera needed new batteries, and rather than wait for them to finish charging, I left without it and wouldn't you know, I saw a pair of foxes out in the preserve today! They looked up as Daisy and I were walking towards them and then turned tail and disappeared into the scrub.

There is something very cat-like about a fox, not doggish at all. Are they more closely related to cats? I'll have to look it up and get back to you on it. But the upshot is I didn't get a shot because I didn't have my camera! So, here's a shot of a corn snake that I saw a couple weeks ago. Did you know that they're constrictors? I didn't, until I looked it up to see what kind of snake it was. Isn't it beautiful? The wavy line it makes lying on the ground is typical for them.