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I was taking the dogs out last night and saw a periodical cicada emerging from it’s nymph stage. Kind of cool - definitely an interesting picture:

Now I wonder if I have to worry about my fruit trees :-/

Not a whole lot going on this weekend. A little shopping, a little work around the house, etc. Saturday, Bryn’s husband, Adam, came by and took a look at some trees that were worrying me. Having a master arborist tell you that, while they are dying, they won’t come down immediately [...]

er, sorry just a minor Red Dawn reference - it’s not my fault, I grew up in the 80s.
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, a note on a new toy.  As I mentioned before, I’m going to go (mostly) digital on my trip to Yellowstone.  I bought 8 GB of memory cards [...]

Some mornings I should just plan to be late for work. This morning was probably one of them. While driving in, I kept getting distracted by how beautiful everything looked. No, I wasn’t high, it’s just that the light was so gorgeous that the most mundane, and even ugly, objects looked beautiful.
Perhaps [...]

I had a chance last week to read a few books, all of which I would recommend in some fashion or another:
National Geographic’s “The Ultimate Field Guide to Photography” This is a very good, basic field guide to photography. It covers a huge range of subjects and, not surprisingly, has some beautiful photographs. [...]

For the past few years, I’ve put together a calendar using pictures I took in Yellowstone. In 2004 (for the 2005 calendar), I was very excited about the project and used only photos I took that year. Last year, I had to raid prior years (it wasn’t the best Yellowstone trip for pictures). [...]

I haven’t posted any pictures from the new camera yet - mostly because they’ve been throw away shots where I’ve tried to get a sense of the new camera. But here are a handful. Only the picture of Luke (the snake) is full sized (3872 x 2592), the rest have been reduced.  Oh, [...]

Okay, I’m taking the plunge. A Nikon D80 with 18-135mm lens and 8 GB worth of SDHC cards arrived on my doorstep yesterday. The D80 body was a Christmas present from K’s parents! I used extra birthday money to get the memory and the lens kit.
I’ve got a number of reasons for [...]

The snake’s been in the cage for a few months, but I’ve held off posting pictures until I finished the last little bit - the frames around the window.  But as pointed out in this comment, it would be good to get some pictures with Luke in his cage.  So, hopefully I’ll finish up the [...]

food coma - from 4 hours ago
feeding

Oh, and one very sad dog - feeling left out because he doesn’t get to play with the squirrels. Darwin, say “cheese”