Friday, May 13, 2011

TWO POSTS IN ONE DAY....

I got a new toy and had to try it out.  It's a Lens Baby.  Lens Babys give a nice blur effect to enhance your images.  Some people go nutz over them, some don't.  I'm thinking about doing some macro photography and thought the lens baby would give a nice effect.  Here are my first efforts.  Obviously, nothing to shout about, yet.  It was about 7:30 pm and the sun was down behind the trees, but I couldn't wait for morning.




The little yellow brushy thing is the only thing in focus.
All of the other stuff has a soft focus effect around it. 

When I get my macro lens, I'll do some Georgia O'Keefe flowers with it.





Last night I took this one of my neighbor's allium. 
These are in Butterbutt's yard.  
I had to pay my usual admission price of 2 biscuits to get into the yard.

FROGS CAN PRAY...

Dick called me at work and said, "You'll never guess what's on our deck."  Over the years, we have had all kinds of critters come through our yard:  deer, foxes, coyote, skunk, hawks, geese, racoons...  So I had no idea what the heck was there now.  Well, it was a big black snake.  I told Dick that it had better be gone in 20 minutes when I was to arrive home.  And it was.  It left all by itself.  Phew!

HOWEVER!!!! That Sunday morning, there were two of them.


That's right that little thing at the end of his tail is actually another head.  There were two holes and each had a snake coming out of it.

They appeared to be living between the deck and the house, a place impossible to get to.  After a day or two I was informed that the fat one was actually the female and probably pregnant, as this is that time of year.  So the panic set in.  I called CRITTER CONTROL and for the measly sum of $279.00, they would come out and remove the snakes.  Money well spent, as far as I was concerned.  They came, they shook all the bushes in the yard, they put down some snake-away (another name for snake oil), a glue trap, AAANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDD!  

Nothing!

It's been a solid week and NO SNAKES!!!

They have either gone because of all the peeking we did, or they are nesting somewhere in the house.  Did I mention that they lay 30 eggs in a clutch?  

Since we still have Froggie, however, I'm thinking that they are gone (also, praying).  So is Froggie.


Froggie says"NO SNAKES!!"

FROGGIES PRAYER

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I close my eyes in water deep.
If snakes should come at night or day,
I pray my Dad used Snake-away.

Burma Shave!