Scavenger Hunt: December 2014

Backyard Adventure: Thanksgiving Day 2014

I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving!  It was so nice to go home and spend time with my family and pig out on delicious Thanksgiving food :)  After eating and visiting for a few hours, I headed outside with my camera and here are a few of the critters I found!

Backyard Adventure: Late November

I've stayed mostly indoors for the past few days, enjoying the rain and fall-like weather around here.  We missed our weekend hike this past weekend, but I did venture into the backyard again to see what I could find.  I wish the winter weather would get here already, it looks and feels like early Fall still!

At The Park: Leaf-Footed Bug

I went for a solo walk in the park the other day, and it seems the place had been taken over by Leaf-Footed Bugs!  They were everywhere!  Aside from a few deer that I spotted, the only other critter I found was a single dead Harvester Ant.

Backyard Adventure: Black Widow Spider

With the weather being wet and cold right now, I wasn't expecting to find any live subjects to shoot in the yard.  Finding this pretty girl nearly frozen under a stray log near the garage was like hitting the jackpot.  After I took the photos, Matthew and I created a habitat setup to bring her in out of the cold.  She's now comfortably settled in her new temporary home on our living room mantel.  Time for a bit of Black Widow Research!

Backyard Adventure: Raindrops

Having recently purchased a new lens for my camera, I was over the top excited about going for a hike this morning...but waking up to rain and cold weather made me want to start a fire and have a lazy Sunday instead.  I settled for heading into the backyard to see what I could find, and I'm really happy with the way these water droplet photos turned out!