Nature Weekend?

April 27th, 2008 by Michael

So yesterday I was called upon to help rid the neighborhood of a pesky snake…turned out it was a 10″ garden snake, but man the commotion was unreal. After many shouts of “kill it, kill it” I captured said snake, took some pictures and let him go away in a new snake friendly habitat. If you look closely in the second picture, you can see the outline of my big ‘ol head. Hint, it’s near the bright part of the eye (which was the sun).

*edit* I was holding the snake right behind the head, so I cut out my fingers!!

garden snake terrorizes morrisville

michael caught the snake\'s eye

Tent Caterpillar Gone Wild

April 26th, 2008 by Michael

So I was out with the dogs today and noticed a few caterpillars in the grass. I was able to snap a couple of quick shots, while holding the dogs back as they wanted a caterpillar snack….sigh.

Notice how his mouth is open in all of it’s slimy majesty!!

Tent Caterpillar

Bark at the Moon?

March 29th, 2008 by Michael

Ok, so it’s not the moon it’s a street lamp lighting up a tree that is waking up from it’s long winter sleep. I thought it looked beautiful so I snapped a few high ISO shots to see how they would come out. I was fairly pleased with what I had and even made one of the shots my desktop background (although I must admit I change the background every few days!!).

*edit* - I have been educated that this is a cherry blossom…I grew up in Florida, where all trees are palm trees, so that should tell you a lot!!

Tree lit up by street lamp