Like a Mushroom

During visits to the oncologist I often feel like I'm a mushroom being kept in the dark and fed. . .well, you know the saying.

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Left Foot, Right Foot

The day before an oncologist visit is always a trying time! Worry that I won't ask the right questions, or he won't order the correct tests, that something, some evil, bad cell, will be overlooked and left to grow. I am on edge all day.

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For many of my entries in this project I am going with whatever I find interesting to take a photo of and then accessing the emotions I can tie into it. But today, my emotion was nervousness, and I had to try to depict it. Once I came up with the idea I had to find a broken piece of glass and figure out how to take my own foot with it. I finally remembered that there were a few beer bottles in the recycling container, then had to figure how to break one without it scattering everywhere, lol. I put it in a box from a coffee bean grinder and beat it on the garage floor, and believe it or not it was harder to break than I thought it would be. So next I hit the box on a hammer - that worked. Now to find a poking up shard, yeah, good luck. But I managed.

Oh, and I thought about going and cleaning my feet and painting my nails, but I thought a messy foot would be better. . .

Seen in Wisconsin (mostly cellphone pics)

Many Moths

Life is a frail moth flying, caught in the web of the years that pass. ~ Sara Teasdale

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I normally have a yellow bulb in my back porch light, but while attempting to catch the flying squirrels on "film" I changed the bulb to white. It's only been white about a week and we discovered over an inch of moth carcasses piled inside the glass shade.

As soon as I saw the photos on my camera's screen I knew I wanted to attempt a texture layer on them. I knew I wanted a vintagey look and hope I've achieved it. These are my first attempts at textures. :0)

THE FOURTH ONE HATCHED!

I am just amazed at how fast they grow! You can really tell. He's the hot pink one, lol. He's about half the size of the others! Cell pic, better ones later.

Macro Monday ~ Hatchling

Exciting things happening here over the weekend! I had to share that our eggs are hatching and the House Finch couple are parents to 3 so far. I am working on a longer post of their journey thus far that will be immediately below this one, but I had to take advantage of this neat experience for a Macro Monday.  He's still attached to his little egg, maybe an hour hatched.

I cropped in a little too far in this one, but I was hoping to enable you to really him.

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. :) MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - Thanx to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

A boy and a girl start a family

One day this puffy boy "stalked" this girl. . .

She was preoccupied making a nice home for herself near the grocery store, so she didn't notice him right away. Finally he grabbed her by the top feathers and flew her into the bushes. {The bird feeder in the background fell a few days ago - Eek!}

Shortly thereafter she returned to her house building project. She decided it wouldn't be bad to have a little muscle help, so she allowed him to assist.

It wasn't long at all before she decided that she would like a little family to enjoy her new house. So she coaxed the boy back into the bushes and when they returned she popped out an egg. . .

. . .then there were two. . .

. . .then there were four. Proud as she could be she sought approval from the Big Orb in the Window.

Once the eggs were laid, she frequently called out to the boy to bring her food, and an occasional bit of chocolate. The sad thing is, although the boy worked very hard on the house, and he catered to her every need, he was not allowed to sleep in the house.

She sat, and she sat, and she sat some more. Occasionally she remembered there was a grocery store all around her house and would lazily graze while sitting. Occasionally she would go for a fly with her beau, but most of the time, she sat and waited.

Exactly 2 weeks after the first egg landed in the house, a baby broke out of the egg and began demanding food.

It was the girl's time to fly and fly and cater to someone's needs. However, the boy loved her so very much he was more than willing to share her load. She once again inquired of the Orb in the Window, hoping to please him.

Sometimes, when the babies slept and all was quiet, the boy and the girl would sneak back off into the bushes.

Suddenly there were three, soon to be four, more mouths to feed.

The End (for now)

Sidenote: I have noticed that my venetian blinds are reflecting in the window and will try to remedy that for the next photos. Dang! It's kinda hard flying blind, lol. I love that I can leave the camera there, but it's difficult making sure it's pointed in the proper place and not so easy to adjust without disturbing the clan. I'm happy for the remote and tripod in this situation but boy I want to be able to move around them without the glass between us and all these new challenges to overcome.