292: Time consuming
Posted: July 12, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, garden, gardening, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: damselfly, deer fly, dragonfly, flowers, Microsoft, Personal computer, Photography, postaday2011, wildflowers, Windows 7, Windows XP 32 Comments
Today's view of the pond
Wow. What a difference a new computer makes. Things move along at a much faster rate now. Or they would if I knew what I was doing. I’ve gone from Windows XP (which I loved) to Windows 7 (which I’m not quite even liking just yet). I think companies such as Microsoft make changes purely for the sake of change (in other words, somebody who wants to keep their job comes up with something new to justify their continued career with the company). I really don’t care for the way the Library is arranged on Windows 7. That said, I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually.
272: Getting freaky in the woods
Posted: June 22, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Earth, garden, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, water, weather | Tags: butterfly, creek, deer fly, dragonfly, flowers, forest, Odonata, Photography, postaday2011, summer solstice, Vernal pool, wildflowers, woods 33 Comments
Summer Solstice in the Woods
Yesterday evening, before the storms hit, I decided to wander back to the woods to get some Summer Solstice shots of the creek (as part of my contribution to Scott’s Assignment: Four Seasons 2011). I donned the appropriate clothing, including my ugly hat to keep the deer flies away, and slowly hiked to the back of the pond and down into the woods. I got stopped along the way by a few things that caught my attention.
Spinning
Posted: July 27, 2009 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, nature, Photography, Summer, water | Tags: deer fly, insects, pond 17 Comments
(074: Spinning in circles. Photo © 2009 by Robin)
Have you ever been bitten by a deer fly?
They are nasty little creatures. The female deer fly feeds on blood. She lands on a spot that you can’t reach, makes a painful little incision, and then laps up your blood.
The deer fly bite, for me, is much worse than a mosquito bite. I get giant, painful, itchy welts and hives from them. Therefore, I do not like the deer fly, and although I try to have compassion for all living things, when I saw the deer fly which appears in the center of the above photo lying on its back and spinning like crazy to upright itself, I decided to let nature take its course. If the fly figured it out, it would live. If not, it would die.
I don’t know if the fly managed to upright itself and live or if it died. I left it spinning in circles.
Life in the Bogs 