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A few years ago my mom was looking for a set of salad tongs and we came up with these.
We really liked them because at the time we were living in Texas and they made us think of the beach.
They really are rather gaudy, and heavy!
Maybe now I need to find her some snowflake ones.
This butterfly has a daddy longlegs friend to the right.
And when she flew to a new spot she found another friend.
A different butterfly with a different little friend (on the left). All of the above photos were female Cabbage Whites.
The one above is a male Cabbage White.
This male Clouded Sulpher landed on me so I handed hubs the camera.
And the wicked wind helped make more of him visible.
Apparently butterflies like company.
Many, many moons ago (I think I was still in high school, early 80s), my aunt made me a tiny little doll. At the time I think miniature shelves were pretty popular and the doll was made to go on a shelf but really, I’m old, oh so old, and have forgotten the whys. But while I was going through things and reorganizing I came across my little doll and thought she would be fun to photograph.
I set about trying to find the best way to photograph her and finally ending up wedging her tiny feet into the top of my birdfeeder. I thought I would be telling about how my aunt hand sewed all of her tiny seams, little dress, and French knot hair.
But, the story I thought I would give with the photos quickly turned as I went around her to get all of her sides.
It was right about now that my 19 year old decided to get in on the action. He tried to eat her, but I wasn’t quick enough to catch that shot!
Doesn’t he look guilty?!
She now sits in Haden’s belly. I’m not so sure I want her back if she makes it back from her trip.
She was cute, and lasted many years. . . until my sons got ahold of her! But boys do keep life interesting!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING – Hope you all had a wonderful day filled with family and food.
Did you hear the angels singing earlier? Well I was rejoicing with them!
3 days ago, while in Missouri, my computer crashed. It was not a soft little fall to the ground, oh no, it was a full fledged push-my-buttons-all-you-want-I'm-still-not-going-to-do-anything crash! Surprisingly, I did not cry, I did not throw a fit, I did sulk.
I was surprised to find that my computer losing all of my information – all of the important little tidbits I share with it – made me feel like. . .well, like a Loser. My self esteem crashed along with my laptop. But I held, deep inside, a tiny little crumb sized morsel of hope. I had (I was sure) a start-up disc at home (Have you made yours? Can I recommend doing so?). So I packed my beloved friend away and awaited our return trip.
Shortly after getting home last night – so shortly that I was still wearing my coat and stepped right past my dogs without even a 'hello' – I dug out the disc and waited with fingers crossed and baited breath for my magnificent husband to fix my world. I quietly held my breath as he inserted the disc, and after I woke back up from passing out, I found my beloved laptop was still dead.
I grabbed the paperwork that came with the computer and was excited to see that the recovery disc was right there ready to be of service. Dennis warned me that it would most likely erase everything from my friend's memory if we used it and that it might not fix the problem.
I was on board to try it as the last resort, but only after we tried everything else. Luckily, I had recently backed up my photos so I was only going to lose a month's worth of photos. But wiping the hard drive meant I would lose everything, every photo, every program, everything! My heart cried NO! We did call Gateway and found out that the warranty expired 2 days before the fatal crash – just my fricking luck!
The recovery disc was our final option and the one that worked! Dennis got my computer back up and running and I have been spending every free moment trying to get things back on it and where they need to be. We got a hard drive case and put my hard drive in it, attached it to Dennis' computer and copied all my photos and such onto an external hard drive before Dennis put it back in my computer and made my computer breath again.
I have just a few minor issues now and some of them will be worked out over the next few days as I reinstall my programs and try to bring my friend out of his amnesiac state. The one thing I worry about is that I may have missed an important email. So, if you have tried to get my attention and have been ignored please know that I am not slighting you, I probably didn't see it, so please forgive me and try again.
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving. :) We'll be eating turkey and such with our kids today. Then I'll be trying to catch up on blog visiting now that we're home. Then tomorrow I'll be doing the random generator for the book giveaways, hurry and sign up if you haven't.
For the first time this year I got to see some Indian Pipe Flowers (aka ghost flower, corpse plant), scientific name, Monotropa uniflora.
The plants are small, growing to 4-10" tall with flowers that are about ¾" long. The entire plant is white and turns black when damaged. A gel-like sap is said to have been used medicinally by Native Americans for treating eye problems.
Once pollinated, the flowers turn upright and the plants turn brown. Hopefully next time I see them they will be fresher.
Another chipmunk decided to explore this little birdhouse as a possible home.
They started preparing for winter, stuffing cheeks as full as possible.
Good thing I have my chipmunk statue.
Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign Mr Linky.
Where there’s berries there’s often birds.
And I looked and looked and did find some birds.
However, they were camera shy!
This lone frog was the only creature willing to pose for a moment.
