B_Htown
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| Country: | United States  |
| City: | Houston |
| Registered: | November 12th, 2009 |
| Num of photos: | 99 |
| Age: | 50 |
| Selected as fav: | 3 |
| Photogear: | Panasonic Lumix Point & Shoot 6X Zoom |
Tough Little Camera, R.I.P.
Belated post from July 25, 2010 Well I thought I had killed the camera for sure. I dropped it in a mud puddle. It was a shallow puddle and the camera only spent a split second there before I snatched it out and dried it off [...]
Murder At The Shepherd's Needle, Finally.
These orange bodied, black legged Milkweed Assassin bugs are the most prevalent critter at the Shepherd's Needle at the moment. I see them creeping around in the understory. I see them sipping nectar from the flowers. I see them stabbing the stems of the Shepherd's [...]
Beauty and The Beast
The Red Admiral butterfly that had staked out our lettuce garden in the winter moved into the Shepherd's Needle during the spring. It did battle with every butterfly that fluttered by. Only the much smaller Texas Crescent butterflies held their ground. Now the Red Admiral [...]
Too Many Bugs At The Shepherd's Needle
There are just too many of them. So I'm glomming them into collages. Even today, as the setting sun was blasting low in the sky, I took another look at the Shepherd's Needle. I usually avoid taking photos in this tricky light, as it casts [...]
Back in Business
The Shepherd's Needle is back in business. There were a couple of flowers a couple of weeks ago but we’ve had a good rain since then. Now there are hundreds of flowers and the insects are back.
Last year, when the Shepherd's Needle was at [...]
Blurry Butterflies
This smallish Red Admiral butterfly staked out our lettuce garden back in February. It would show up on the warm days, but I could not get close enough for a photo. Now it buzzes me every time I'm in the garden. It's quite aggressive. It [...]
A Compromise
A generous patch of bur clover and hairy vetch have migrated from our yard, where they are much appreciated, into the front ditch, where they are not. It seems from one weekend to the next, the clover went from dark, flat blotches on the ground [...]
Dying Butterfly
Last weekend was springtime, now winter is back. Even now the temperature is heading toward freezing. It was much too cold for a butterfly to be out. My husband found this one on the floor of our house. It was lying on its side with [...]
They're Back
My husband and I were out admiring our peach tree which blooms this time of year. In winters past, the blossoms have hummed with hundreds of honey bees. I was lamenting the lack of bees due to our unusually cold weather, when my husband pointed [...]
Moth Mystery Solved
I finally identified this tiny moth I photographed back in November 2009. It's a Dogwood Borer moth. What is disturbing about finally identifying the variety of insects in my yard, is that the sites that identify them also list the damage they do and how [...]