Showing posts with label Cardinal Meadowhawk dragonfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardinal Meadowhawk dragonfly. Show all posts

Friday, July 25, 2014

Today's walk report: 072414, time flies.

It's been a very busy and productive month and the time had to come from somewhere. Quite a bit of it came from here. But that's okay, nobody missed anything.

These photos are from 071914, what would have been my mother's 92nd birthday (she passed peacefully, 030513) and from 072014. 071914 also happened to be the 40th reunion of Doc's and my high school graduating class. No, we didn't go. We took pictures and walked into the evening instead.

071914, Mostly Macro Shots.

Eager to bloom...



No ID.

Deuterocohnia longipetala.
Flower notation?

Tiny flowers, no ID.
White-tailed jackrabbit. Busted!
072014...

Sympetrum (Tarnetrum) illotum, aka, Cardinal meadowhawk dragonfly.

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2

3--taking off.
Young adult, large milkweed bugs, Oncopeltus fasciatus.
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on milkweed.
Danaus plexippus and Oncopeltus fasciatus on Asclepias fascicularis.

Pond flower, no ID.
PIP.
A busy grass skipper butterfly.
One more, Oncopeltus fasciatus, aka, milkweed bug and a hoverfly.
Desert Willow flowers.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Today's walk report: 090713

Rust on rust.

Not too many comments out of me today. I woke up with probably the worst backache of my life  and spent a good part of the day shopping online for a new bed. Besides doing more shit to aggravate my back like house and garden work. This all started with me dreaming on Tuesday morning that I was immobile with a bad back and I awoke with back pain that's been sliding up and down in intensity ever since. This morning I was OK within an hour but that hour was miserable and it also started at 4:30 A.M.

The thing I need to do to help my back (besides getting a real bed) is virtually impossible right now and that's working on strengthening my abdominals. Stretching is precarious, I need to do that very slow and easy because just a tad too much and I'm out again. Walking once it gets into high gear is great. It's part stretching and mostly endorphins--it wears off.

Not that I didn't know it but I really thought about it today. I've never really had a very decent bed and the only bed I ever bought myself retail was a store demo water bed back in 1986. Most of the beds in my life have been purchased by others or were hand me downs. I did also buy a used bed from Persis Khambatta back in the early 90s. Persis was this person in the 1st Star Trek movie.


I bought most of her bedroom furniture. It was all black lacquer with gold trim. The bed had an 8-track AM-FM stereo reciever and car stereo-like speakers built into the headboard. The base of the bed was lined with florescent lights. It was very Playboy magazine circa 1972. 

Here's a picture of the headboard and nightstands from my old apartment in Los Angeles.


Woe is me.

I'll be brief.

Nice of him to land there. That's about a 40" rusty rod that's sticking up out of the ground. Cardinal Meadowhawk dragonfly (Sympetrum-illotum).


Heading up the hill for the sunset.


and thar she blows.