Moving Sun - August Version

Here is the third in the series of the moving sun. For the bottom section of the photo, I copied the sun from June and July and added the dates. Since I was playing with adding to photos, I also am posting another double image photo from last evening. I saw the sunset and wanted the Venus fountain in the photo too so I took the photo of the sunset and then added the Venus section of another photo with the following results.

Mystery Animal

OK, here's the game. You get three guesses to figure out what this mystery animal is. Here is clue number one.








There was a bit of magnification. Perhaps less will help your perception?






You've had your first two guesses. One more clue before all is revealed....










I found this one climbing a rope near a tree. It was probably the fact that I turned the photo 90 degrees that threw you off.




That's right, it's our friend of summer the "heat bug" also known as "cicada" or "harvestfly" or "locust." Apparently there are many species of these insects but one needs to be an expert to sort them out. I'm not an expert. I didn't even realize, until today, that there were so many different kinds: periodical cicada, 13 year cicada, dogday cicada, orchard cicada, and others without English names.

Mushrooms

I like photographing mushrooms.



One can just put the camera on the ground, shoot, and see the fungus in a way not easily possible with the eye.

More Spiders & One More Cattail

I wish I had names for these spiders but, regardless, they are still interesting to look at for now.





Here is another look at an interesting cattail.



Actually, it's the same cattail that I posted on the 15th but this photo was taken a week before that. Things do change....

Web Page Update

My wild flower web site was updated today with 178 names of currently blooming wild flowers for our southern Ontario area and two new photos.