Wordless Wednesday

Weekly Photo Challenge: Chaos

This is what chaos looks like to me!

Chaos

Weekly Photo Challenge

Nature’s Beauty: Fungi

I also found this beautiful fungi in the Greenbelt yesterday:

From Top to Bottom

Yesterday I found this big mushroom in the Greenbelt. It was more than six inches across.

Top:

The edge of the top:

Taking a photo of something I couldn’t see was tricky. The underneath part of the cap, also called gills, isn’t as clear as I would have liked but the view is right:

The next two photos show the stalk and the ring around the stalk:

And finally, the base:

Daily Post: Base

Wordless Wednesday

Daily Prompt: Bridge

The Greenbelt lot behind my house is on a fairly steep decline. In the 70’s, most of it was a beautiful, terraced lot; then the blackberry, ivy and morning glory vines took over. These stairs, which until recently were covered by the invasive vines, serve as a bridge between one level and the next.

Daily Prompt: Bridge

Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Looking Through a Window

I saw the most amazing thing through my kitchen window this afternoon. I’m used to seeing spider webs close to the window, but today I noticed that there was a bee next to the spider. As I watched, the spider started turning the trapped bee over and over again, wrapping it’s silk filament around the bee with every turn.

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Once the bee was encased in the silk, the spider started pulling the bee upwards. Within a minute it moved from the middle of the plate glass window to a point where it was out of my sight.

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This evening, I discovered that Cee’s Black and White challenge for this week is “Looking Through a Window.” I love the synchronicity.

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: It’s All About Nature

When I returned home the other day, I noticed a glob of black on my house, just above the dying dahlias. It was about 8 feet from the ground. I couldn’t imagine what it was.

As I walked closer, it became obvious.

I’ve never seen a snail 8 feet up the side of a house before!

It’s all about nature

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors

Cee’s instructions for this week’s challenge are to show off photos that make her need to put on her sunglasses indoors. This gallery contains the photos that I think fit that fun challenge! (The butterfly photo that I use for my gravatar was taken by my friend Sarah Corlett.)