July 31, 2010 | 
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What can you do in 95 minutes?
Run errands. Go out to eat. Watch a TV show or two. Play a game of cards or even Scrabble.
or…
Do a load of laundry. Clean the kitchen AND the bathroom. Run to the grocery store.
or…
Go outside and walk around with your camera. Don’t have 95 minutes? I’ll share mine. I took these photos around my home between 5:34pm and 7:09pm. 95 minutes well spent!
rough green snake in flame acanthus
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desert willow blooms
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robber fly (Asilidae, probably)
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cricket frog, i think
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cricket frog in perspective
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fritillary
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common green darner, i think
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where does the horsetail/rush end and the snake begin?
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big as a hummingbird
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toad, not quite awake yet
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toads love the drain hose that diverts rainwater to the pond
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american beautyberry, just beginning to get its color
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bee killer, also a robber fly
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blue dasher, or maybe a skimmer
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a study in greens
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Absolutely stunning photos. You certainly captured beautiful images in 95 minutes. Wonderful. A pleasure to view.
RJ, thank you. Not a dull moment in those 95 minutes!
Thoroughly enjoyed the close up look at the yard world, and the trek only took 9.5 minutes reading your blog … what with wows and going back several times with … how long was the snake ? Did the snake pass up that grasshopper on purpose ?
Thanks for sharing your hobby … do you have a micro cam to put on that snake or grass hopper for some action shots?
Thanks
Tom
Tom (Dad) – glad you enjoyed. The snake is probably between 2-3ft long. I think a tiny camera fixed onto its head would make for very interesting video!
Thanks for sharing. It sure does remind one of the things we are oblivious to in our frenzied society of today. I wonder how many other folks walked right by something so beautiful and never noticed. Another reminder we should stay in the moment.
Hi Terry – it is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day, I know. Nothing balances it all out quite as well as a few minutes spent outside.
That last picture is AWESOME!!
Are you having an major grasshopper year? We always have plenty of them in the summer, but this year, it is…extreme.
Hi Joy – I think that last one is my favorite as well. And YES, major grasshoppers this year, just about everywhere I go. Even walking the paved paths they fly in droves ahead of me, skittering across the walkway!
A productive 95 minutes. Interesting position the bee killer is holding with its hind legs stretched straight alongside the abdomen – I’ve never seen that before.
Hiya, Ted. I chose that photo because of the position of the legs. I have a series of photos that shows him acting very much like a fly, in that this leg position was just part of an overall grooming-type movement.
Thanks for sharing a little piece of your day, Amber. And as others have said, even if we didn’t take the time to slow down, we can through you.
Hi Sandy, glad you enjoyed these.
Gorgeous pictures. A little adventure in nature in each day gives me a smile to remember. Yours are so delightful to see.