Showing posts with label GO OUTSIDE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GO OUTSIDE. Show all posts

Saturday

Centipede Frustration!!!

If you can identify this, please let me know!


Papa Spook caught this for me under a log out in our bayou. I like to somewhat identify the bugs I sell, but I have no idea what this little bugger is. It's a red centipede. There are over 8,000 species of centipede, only 3,000 of which are described, and all I've got to go on is that it's red.
Go me.
 I feel as if Grandmother Spook would give me a very hard time for selling this ring- she's terrified of centipedes and millipedes. You can't win them all, I guess- sorry grandmaw. I think he's cute, in a deceptively fast, aggressive, toxic and prehistoric kind of way.
I've got another one still alive if anyone is interested in a custom piece.

I also have an unidentified spider, and apologize for the crappy picture:
What the EFF is this thing!? About the size of a penny, He's lightning-fast and can climb up the sides of the glass jar. Tan-brown legs with a black body, distinctive tanish-white markings on abdomen. He's still alive, and most often curls up as shown in the photo.


Lookie what PapaSpook brought home!

Beautiful, isn't she? My hubs caught her with no gloves on! I was kind of freaking out the WHOLE TIME I was putting her in resin.

Sunday

This is what I did today.....

Had lunch with my BFF Kate and my good friend Yolanda (who is sitting on the other side of the table) at a Vietnamese Bistro
Went to the National Funeral Museum with said friends. Took a picture in a coffin. Saw some super sweet old school hearses, caskets of various materials, a history of embalming annnddddddd:
I GOT TO KNEEL IN FRONT OF A MICHAEL JACKSON SHRINE. This was just randomly stuck in the Dia De Los Meurtos exhibit- the candles on the floor are those cheap "Jesus" candles but with Mj's face- there are also a few photographs and on the table sits a jar of Peter Pan Peanutbutter emblazoned with Michael Jackson! I can die now, I've seen everything I need to see.


Saturday

GO OUTSIDE!

Went on a bug-huntin' excursion today, here's the booty:
Damselfly OR Dragonfly nymph

Freaky mosquito-hawk looking thing

Cuckoo Wasp - He is covered in dirt but is a bright blue color. It took me and Aaron ages to catch one, illusive little bastards!

GO OUTSIDE




Go outside for no reason other than to go outside. This can be done in 1 minute. Appreciate the beauty of something Mother Nature has created- really appreciate it - The miniscule but mighty ant, the dull brown bird that sings rays of sunshine, the dandelion who only intends to spread beauty and not annoyance. 



I do not own or presume to own these images.

Go Outside!

Go enjoy the endless bounty of beauty that you take for granted every day! Appreciate the patterns on leaves and the way wood grows. Notice the teeniest bug. Examine even the reediest-looking flower and recognize it's complex aesthetic value.