The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning
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Other creatures in our world
The corn cob sat on the patio after an outdoor supper, awaiting a trip to the trash can, when an all-black woolly bear caterpillar appeared from nowhere.
I’m sure it’s a direct descendant of that one. We put this one in the garden, too, for the same reason.
Mary puts damaged cherry tomatoes beside our resident chipmunk’s favorite hideout:
The critter eats them from the inside out, then tosses the shredded skins.
Since she started leaving her offerings, the chipmunk has been leaving the good cherry tomatoes in her garden untouched. We’re both astonished at how many tomatoes fit inside one chipmunk…
These turkey vultures were settling in for the evening on the south bank of the Rondout Creek in Kingston:
Hand-held with the HS-230SX at dusk and cropped a bit. There’s no way to get a good exposure of a black bird backlit by the sky…
Mary grows Scarlet Runner Beans with vivid red flowers specifically for the Ruby Throated hummingbirds that frequent the back yard:
This female perched quite a while on that tendril while sticking her tongue out; it looks like a length of monofilament fishing line. The male also feeds on those flowers, although I’ve never seen him perch anywhere for more than a few seconds.
We wish them success in raising their chicks!
Hand-held with the Canon SX-230HS zoomed all the way in, then ruthlessly cropped.
It seems toads really like the plant cell packs that Mary uses to start her garden veggies:
The garden isn’t quite as snug, but the camouflage works much better:
It’s been a dry year and we haven’t seen many toads or slugs around the house.
A pocket camera can’t do justice to the Bald Eagles, just before dusk and halfway across the Hudson River from our river cruise yacht:
We got a closer look at the pair of eagles who once graced the original Grand Central Station and are now standing guard at St Basil Academy in Garrison.
This one glanced away from the entrance, perhaps to keep an eye on us:
Another watches over an interior road:
They’re two tons of cast iron apiece and, should any of you want a restoration project, I’m sure the good folks at St Basil’s could work something out.
We saw those during the Cycling the Hudson Valley tour: riding during the day, camping and touristing in the evening.
Several years ago we encountered a Penn Station eagle at the Washington Zoo:
Fly away, young Valkyrie, fly away …
It had to happen:
Given that the Sony HDR-AS30V has a 170° FOV (probably diagonally corner-to-corner), the honeybee must be an inch or two from the lens. Subsequent frames show it circling around in front of the fairing and continuing about its business.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 