May 2009 archive


30 May 2009

Big Brown Moth

This is a follow-up to the Big Green Caterpillar post from last August. My wife had determined that this caterpillar was probably Antheraea Polyphemus.
We found three cocoons from these guys around our yard last fall. One was attached to a board leaning against the house and two were wrapped up in leaves under trees. This [...]

25 May 2009

A Campfire is Born

Bigger: 2816 x 2112
Shot with: 6 mega-pixel Canon SD600
Shared with: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

10 May 2009

The Schleich Gnu is Back

Hey Free Software and GNU fans, check out this neat toy Gnu.
Our daughter has about one or two million Schleich animals, little plastic figures that vary in size depending on the animal but are typically 2-3 inches tall and 3-5 inches long. (There is a lot of variation -- the meerkat is much smaller and [...]