Tuesday, September 11, 2018

rain, boxing, and more little things


Still getting rain. None last Saturday but showers the last two days and predicted for every day this week, of course, now that I'm back to the top of Rocky's list.

I'll be busy today packing up 5 of the Botanicas to send to the gallery in Dallas for their upcoming show. I haven't worked on anything, no drawings, no model making, since last Thursday when I finished the second hummingbird tile model


but I have started to excavate the kiln in the garage. It's not completely accessible yet, but getting there.

Some pics of small stuff...

the anoles are getting bigger

these little beetles have been at it for days unless this is a different pair on the same plant

tried to do an image search for this to see if I could find out what will emerge from this cocoon and google returned pictures of street and other signs...okaaaay

I guess this is an ant but I have never seen one like this before

this little spider was determined to not have it's picture taken and I was determined to take it

came across this little 8” snake, one that I have never seen before, in the garage with a puncture wound behind it's head and the cat laying nearby. it wasn't dead so I moved it to the leafy debris and when I went back later to check on it, it was gone

maybe I should have used this pic to illustrate my boob smushing post

Big Mama's posse is down to six now from the original twelve. either I'm not feeding her often enough to suit her or something has been fishing in her pond





18 comments:

  1. Nice pictures! Busy beetles, eh? I can't wait to find out what emerges from that cocoon. Pretty little snake. August and I were looking at a sort of chart about snakes found in Florida and there were snakes I'd never even heard of! How can that be? In my own state! I am constantly amazed at all of the things I don't know. And don't even know I don't know.

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    1. my sister (see below) is correct...bagworm cocoon.

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  2. I thought that the cocoon was a string of weather and spent lady finger fire crackers. Very curious ! Your bugs are so interesting, I love your bug world. And thank you for saving the little snake, a very pretty one, she is. Love your hummingbird too!

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  3. I've never seen some of those bugs. Hope your snake wasn't a viper. I was going to pick up a large water moccasin with a towel once; now I know what they look like. And, they stink. I have a few bagworms on my willow tree and I don't know what those caterpillars look like later. I filled a paper bag one time when I was young with them and before I knew it, they had crawled out of the bag dragging their little tent with them.

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  4. That strange cocoon is invasive to pine, look for more and destroy

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  5. Bagworm, love the spider and ant however

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  6. Is that some sort of carpenter ant? We have them here, which wasn't too good for the railroad tie wall. Fortunately we had hundreds and hundreds of linear feet of t.

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    1. not a carpenter ant according to the internet search.

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  7. I just went searching for "cocoon that looks like a pile of trash" and got results for bagworms! I'm not sure that's such a good thing, huh?

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  8. What a wonderful round-up of your little creatures, the spider is extraordinary!

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    1. isn't it though and it was small, it's body maybe a half inch.

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  9. Yeah, bagworm or bagworm moth is what I came up with, too. (Image search still failed me, though -- I cropped your picture to just the cocoon, thinking that without the post I wouldn't get sign-related results. Instead I got chocolate!)

    That spider is awesome. No idea what kind it is but I love it, and the anole too.

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  10. I imagine being an artist means you see and study the details of our world. That spider on the petal is amazing.

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  11. love the humming bird! we have lots of feeders throughout the park, but they seem to like my gardens best!

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  12. I love seeing all your critter pictures. The anoles continue to be a favorite, although I like the spider too.

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