In July we made several trips out of town with family and friends, so we didn’t have a lot of time to wander around the yard or to make many walks through Earl Johnson Park (a.k.a., St. Augustine Road Fish Management Area.) Not that I would have been inclined to do it much – this…
lacewing larva
End of Summer
We recently marked the official “End of Summer” on our calendars but it’s still awfully hot here. I just cleaned off my computer hard drive and found some images from summer that I had forgotten all about. The shedding lizard looks like it’s wearing a little hoodie. And look at this lacewing larva feeding on…
Life in the Bamboo
June, 2015 ~ For the past two months, whenever we’ve been home, I’ve spent about an hour a day wedged in between the stalks of giant “punting pole” bamboo, trying to catch a ladybug in the act of hatching. While I’ve seen it twice, and got passable pictures one of those times, what I really…
May in the Park
It has been a hot May in the park. Most of the birds are gone but we can always count a few on the automatic fish feeder they seem to like the perch. The arrowhead plants are all blooming: Found a tiny egg on the ground but can’t tell what kind and couldn’t see a…