More Bugs - Only One Spider in This Bunch

Up to eleven bugs...

31 Bugs

August's 31 Bugs project is going sloooowly. It's going to run into September, since I think I have about ten not-blurry insects so far.

Here are a few:

Look at those eyes - red-orange with white and black racings stripes. It obligingly hung out on a geranium while I took a bunch of photos.

Yellow Jackets, building condos on the garage soffit. Apparently this kind is (relatively) peaceable, so the nest gets to stay until winter.

Gnarly-looking dude, checking out the snack supply.

Here's a cute spider - about 2" top to bottom. He perists in webbing up the hose cart, even though it gets trashed every time I water the plants.

27 more creepy crawly cuties to come...I know you can't wait.

Wow, Been A While...

Bear with me - I'm posting the rest of July's panos. July 25th's was a bust - shot the flowers on the upper deck from about 5 feet away. The software couldn't cope with the parallels of both deck boards and railings.

July 26 - Kent's beautiful Standing Rock Cemetery. I spent more time looking at the old grave stones and wondering about the people, than shooting. Isn't that a lovely mausoleum?

July 27 - The pond at Hines Hill Conference Center in the Valley. The CC is where the Cuyohoga Valley Photographic Society holds their photowalk critiques. The pond is full of frogs - very wary frogs, who won't let a person get within shooting distance, darn it.

July 28 - We usually go to Panera for dinner and laptopping on Wednesday night. Seems like Stow gets lots of downpours in Wednesday night - this pano was taken right after one stopped. Note the cloudy, grey sky and empty patio.

July 30 - Queen Anne's Lace. Took this while blackberry picking. Haven't picked berries since I was a kid. They went into muffins and a yummy cobbler. MMMMmmm.

July 31 - Pond at Summa Wellness. Shortly before I took this pano, I flushed a Little Green Heron, in the middle of the 'burbs - how cool is that? Shot with the Nikon P&S, which has a pano assist (who knew?), which isn't much use in bright light. Sort of a ghost image so you can match the next shot. It doesn't show up well in daylight.

August 8 - Owed myself a pano from the 29th - took this from the deck of the William G. Mather, an old lake freighter which has been turned into a museum. Definitely worth a visit. I think we liked it better than the Rock Hall, which is actually what we came to see. 

So caught up on panos. Next up is the August bug project. Creepy crawlies, anyone?

Photos from the July 24 CVPS Photowalk in Peninsula, Ohio

These are the photos I submitted for the critque the Tuesday after the walk.

Below, Mother of Sorrow Catholic Church from the front steps - beautiful, clear morning. Comments: Thumbs up, except it needs a nice puffy cloud and a little breathing room beneath the finial on the bottom.

Front doorknob, love the patina in the metal and layers of paint. Comment: thumbs up.

Old house east of Mother of Sorrows. I like the light on the front of the house. Comment: Needs a cat, and to lose the yellow house in the background.

That's it!

Panos from July 20 - 24, 2010

Stormy month - another one coming:

Happier clouds, from my deck:

Franklin Mills Park, looking upriver toward the old freight station, actually shot on the 23rd.:

Kent Art and Wine Festival, Home Savings Plaza. Almost made it to the end before getting rained out this time.