It's been windy, really windy but not like last year's fire whipping tornado-like whirls kind of windy. This morning it was calm and I thought last night if it were calm I'd go out with just my 60mm macro lens and take pictures of stuff close up. The problem was between crazy dreams and loony cats, I didn't get much sleep. Early to bed, you know what they say and I was asleep sometime early in the 9:00 hour. The problem was I was awake by 11:00, switching rooms and kitty company. Lucy and Junimoon had been sleeping with me in the bedroom for a few nights, mostly in harmony but last night we were subject to cat's sometimes erratic, pathological behaviors, so I split them up and split my time between them. Ultimately this had me awake at 3:00 AM. This put me in slow motion getting out the door. By the time I was on my way, Mister Wind was blowing. Along the way Mister Wind was picking up speed and this put a damper on my photo plans.
I ended up taking pictures of much of the same stuff I've been taking pictures of for the past few-several weeks. The wind kept blowing stuff outside of my viewfinder. Here are some photos from along the way...
I'm going to forego descriptions for the most part since a lot of these subjects have been ID'd recently and quite honestly I'm tired and not in the mood. Plus they keep loading in reverse order and that's irksome. Before that Blogger said, nope... can't load your images.
This one I'll tell ya, because I think I've identified this fungus and I can't recall identifying many fungi.
Coniophora olivacea, also known as olive duster is a species of corticoid fungus in the family Coniophoraceae. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
This is maybe some type of bulbine.
Westringia fruticosa. These are a favorite of one of my favorite butterflies, the Leptotes marina. I have not seen a Leptotes marina in many months.
This is another favorite butterfly, the cabbage white (Pieris rapae) The flowers are Salvia greggii 'White'.
Gaillardia pulchella.
These are Apis mellifera, western honeybees, they have something serious going on in that hole in this tree. There were A LOT of bees, enough of them swarming around in the intensifying winds to make me a little uncomfortable.
The winds make for downed branches from trees and there is a special level of caution in these parts for flying palm fronds.
The thing about palm fronds too is they can fall in clumps of several fronds at a time and they fall a long way.
As the wind picked up it was clear I should cut the walk short so I journeyed back to my car to drive home.
You need to clear away
All the jetsam in your brain
And face the truth
Well love can make amends
While the darkness always ends
You're still alone
So drive home
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