Fungus and Flowers

redbud buds (Columbus Zoo)

? (Columbus Zoo)

dandelion (back yard)

? (Columbus Zoo)

mushroom (Front yard--abundant this year. Macro)

 

Funny

 All photos are from the Columbus Zoo.

Alva, a wolverine. You can guess the sex.

A silvered langur performs a scene from Julius Ceasar

Tuna; Barry or Sammi; and Marlin in close formation. They have name tags; Marlin's is red. (African penguins in the Animal Encounters Village)

Marlin, Barry, and Tuna in spread formation.

I first thought Connie was sucking on the fence structure, but there's a feeder there. (Asian elephant)

The good stuff is always at the bottom. (dromedary camels)

Joanie, a black bear

 

Bugs on milkweed

A few milkweed plants came over the back fence to my yard.

This picture is not so great, but what struck me is the little bug on the leaf. The caterpillar is a monarch, and we've never had one reach the pupa stage.

You might think there's something fake about this picture, or that it was made in a studio because of the uniform background. The background is the brick front of my house, and it's so out-of-focus that we get the color but lose the brick pattern. In the previous shot, the blue is from a window shutter.

For some reason, I have a very hard time getting good shots of bees.

Some kind of milkweed bug, maybe.

Some kind of fly.

All shots are macro except the bee. I have a number of macro shots of bees, but they're crummy.