When others did this
I snickered and said: Gimmick!
I should stop that now.
Week 25 #4.
Today I learned that
the barbeque grill cover
makes a great backdrop.
Tags | A700 | backyard | caterpillar | haiku | macro | photo of the day | year three | insect | bugs |
Week 25 #1.
Caterpillars say:
Ba chomp. And: Ba chewy chomp.
Then: Ba chewy chomp.
*****
The garden was shocked
by how much dill it takes to
make a butterfly.
Tags | A700 | backyard | caterpillar | haiku | macro | photo of the day | south park | year three | insect | bugs |
The lady bug is
-though poorly focused, damnit-
eating an aphid*.
(*I think. I hope. I pray.)
Week 23 #4.
Bold mockingbirds love
taste-testing young tomatoes.
Will they fear fake snakes?
Tags | Fuji FP100C45 | backyard | food | graflex super graphic | large format | photo of the day | snakes | year three | haiku |
Week 21 #2.
Silver surroundings
fail to hide unopened blooms
from butter and salt.
Week 18 #2. Goodbye, Marge. I’ll miss your honey, but not your stings.
One of the backyard beehives Africanized itself, so Karl got a lesson in packing up a beehive full of thousands of very, very angry bees for transport.
Fun fact: The best time to move a beehive is at night, which is also the time when successful bee rustlers go to work.
Week 17 #3.
Week 16 #3. In my backwards garden, the carrots are teensy and the radishes are gigantic.
Week 16 #1. The first beehive checkup of the year ended on an unexpectedly painful note.
