We made a detour to the Grand Canyon on our drive home in September from California (Yes, I’ll be wringing posts out of that trip for some time to come!) It was well worth the four hours’ deviation from our dash (just ask a certain highway patrolman in New Mexico) back to Kansas City, even though we’d visited the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Photography’
July 19, 2009
Assassin in the Garden
Every day, I watch the progress of the Black Swallowtail (BST) caterpillars on my huge bronze fennel plant, which is home to a lot of other insects, including this character (see photo) who seemed to be hanging out and doing nothing while sitting on a fennel flower. Very suspicious. I thought he was up to [...]
July 18, 2009
Survivor — Caterpillar Version
If you plant it, will they come? Over the past two years, I’ve planted many kinds of coneflowers and milkweed. I’ve planted bronze fennel, parsley, bee balm, butterfly bush, autumn sedum and more. It’s a buffet for Black Swallowtail and Monarch butterflies and others. But where are they? I’m not getting much business. Friends say that the [...]
May 24, 2009
Second Annual Strawberry Photograph
My strawberry patch has grown even larger this year. Hurrah! Here’s my post with photographs from last year, in case you missed it. Strawberry Fields.
May 10, 2009
Monarch Watch Spring 2009 Open House
My friend Deb buys some tropical milkweed at the Monarch Watch Spring Open House at the University of Kansas on May 9. Monarch Watch Director Chip Taylor, at left in the yellow hat, and many volunteers were busy as the crowd snapped up the pollinator-pleasing annuals and perennials. The sale is a fund-raiser for Monarch [...]
April 5, 2009
I’m Addicted to Digital
Last month, I stumbled across a photographer’s blog that mentioned the RedBubble art and photography website, so I checked it out — then I signed up. Now, I can’t stay away from it. The amount of incredible excellent art and photography on cyberspace is mind-boggling — and from teenagers, even.
If only we’d had digital photography [...]
March 22, 2009
I’m a Tasmaniac
I’m envious. Janelle of “What Makes Me Laugh” won a trip to Australia for herself and her husband by writing an essay about Jurlique products, based in Adelaide. Her niece told her: Get your butt to Australia before my college year abroad ends (or something like that…) So with only a few months to spare, Janelle figured out [...]
March 11, 2009
Old Photographs of the Famous and the Not-So-Famous
In January, Ulysses S. Grant VI discovered a photograph in his great-great-grandfather’s album of President Abraham Lincoln standing next to the White House. Lincoln is especially “hot” right now, because his birthday was 200 years ago this year. A collector paid Grant $50,000 for the tiny photograph, which is thought to be the last one taken of Lincoln. (See [...]
March 3, 2009
Clouds
I was driving home from an appointment when I noticed the sky above with filled with clouds in a pattern like corduroy. I couldn’t wait to get home and grab my camera to take some photographs. We don’t have mountains or oceans in Kansas, but we do have some awesome cloud formations!
February 27, 2009
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
The three blue supergiant stars in Orion’s Belt are hotter and much more massive than the Sun.
