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Sarasota Sunset

Those are giant pelicans there on the water; lots of them about this
evening.

Sea Grass

These grass stalks are about 6 feet tall and so lovely! All dry and
rustly.

Sandhenge

Manatee Mailbox

We are SO getting one of these for the Cabin...

I don't know what this plant is. It's a woody vine growing near the driveway and until this year had never flowered nor had berries, but this year it did and does.

Sumac in Fall

The flame sumac is beginning to flame.

Clover

Dead Bug Backlog: Moth Wing

Moth on Mirror

I love this kind of moth! They sit on a surface as though they were a tiny airplane on a landing strip. Not that that is really demonstrated in this photograph—the mirror image looks more like Jesus on a cross, in fact—but they do.

Cake? Let Them Eat Doves!

Or so Hamilton wishes, anyway.

Photo courtesy of Hugh and his iPhone

Pink Sky, November 7 2009

Our Internet is down, so another iPhone photo...

More tidying; found this previously-unposted draft in my blog list today

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot!
I see no reason
Why gunpowder season
Should ever be forgot!

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

Dead Bug Backlog: Moth Legs

The Moon and Photoshop

Dead Bug Backlog: Moth

I've had several dead insects lying around on my desk for a while now, waiting to be photographed. Here is the first.

Moonset

Tuesday 6:40 a.m.

Gulf Fritillary on Lazy Sunday

Moonrise on All Hallows Day