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This Modern World 0

Pictures of Plague Doctors

Via All Things Amazing, an image site (some images NSFW).

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And Now for a Change of Pace 0

I don’t know how long I’ve had this aloe–long enough to have repotted several times in successively roomier pots.

This is the first time it’s bloomed.

Aloe in bloom

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And Now for a Brief Respite 0

From my brother on Virginia’s Northern Neck:

Juvenile eagle in flight as mature eagle looks on.

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A Topsy-Turvy Picture for Topsy-Turvy Times 0

Old sepia photo of four persons on the shore of a pond.  The persons are blurry, yet their reflections in the pond are sharp.

Via All Things Amazing, an image site (some images NSFW).

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And Now for a Brief Respite 0

Old photo of yellow flower.

Via All Things Amazing, an image site (some images NSFW).

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Field of Greens 0

We dropped by Norfolk’s Gardens by the Sea for a while on Saturday. The temperature got higher than we expected, so the highlight of our visit ended up being the ice cream cones from the cafeteria . . . .

Bumble Bee

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“Feed Me” 0

Venus Flytrap

The Venus Flytrap can use each trap only once, so it keeps growing new ones.

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Emergence 0

Monarch butterfly just after emerging from cocoon

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Cocoon 0

After the stripping the milkweed plant bare, the Monarch caterpillars settle down for a nap. This one chose the milkweed pot itself.

Monarch cocoon hanging from rim of flower pot

The milkweeds themselves are amazing. The caterpillars pick them bare–when they have eaten all the leaves, they start start eating the stems–and leaves come right back to feed the next brood.

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A Plague of Brocusts 0

"Lime" scooters left carelessly about the parking lot of a local shopping center.

And this was just a few of the two-wheeled hazards we saw on the two mile trip to the grocery store. There were others in that same parking lot, as well as some left in the middle of a sidewalk in front of the local thrift store.

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A Walk in the Park 0

Sunday, we went to Norfolk’s Gardens by the Sea. Here’s some of what we saw.

Bee on an Echinacea blossom

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Chow Time 0

Monarch butterfly caterpillar chows down on milkweed plant.

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Dragonfly 0

Dragonfly at rest

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Box Cat Box 0

Cat in a drawer of a set of cubes.

She pulled the “drawer” open herself. She likes boxes of all sorts.

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The Watcher 0

Another picture from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.

lizard peering through a fence

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A (Book)Case of Cats 0

Car and Garfield Piggy Bank on top of bookcase

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Rest Your Mind 0

Another picture from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.

eagles in flight over a creek

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In Flight 0

From my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck:

Eagle in flight

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River Rats 0

Otters cavorting in a creek–another picture from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.

Three otters in the water

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Demon Dryer Cat 0

Cat in clothes dryer

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