Nature, wild and wonderful (or not)

[auntiemeesh]

After the rain we had last week and over the weekend, the skies have cleared up and returned to Blinding Blue. On my walk to work yesterday, I passed a little garden and saw a butterfly just hanging out on one of the flowers. So of course I had to pull out my handy dandy camera and snap a few pics.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (minus part of the hindwing)


And once again I'm amazed at what the macro setting on my not at all powerful camera can do. You can see the scales on the butterfly's wing.


In other interactions with wildlife, I had a spider drop onto my face as I was trying to get to sleep last night. This was after I finally got relaxed and comfy, after an hour and a half of tossing and turning. I was finally almost asleep and then I'm up and flailing. Turned on the lights, tossed back the pillows and sheets and found the sucker in the middle of the bed, stunned. *shudders* I'm very polite to bugs outside, in nature, but inside my house, they are toast.

Sadly, it put paid to any relaxation I might have found earlier and it was another two or three hours of tossing and turning before I finally fell asleep. Looooonnnnggggg night.

Comments

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's pretty!

Here it's raining again. No more summer here.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

It's raining here, too, today. We've had a very odd summer so far, I have to say. Not that I'm complaining - I prefer the cooler, wetter days, so it's been mostly right up my alley.