Orange on

Orange, yellow, spider.

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of days ago my daughter came to find me because she found “a cool spider eating a bee!”. It’s a crab spider, in particular a Misumena vatia, and has been hanging out on an orange poppy in our front yard ever since.

crab spider hanging out on an orange poppy

These are neat spiders. They spin no web so they spend most of the life waiting on a flower hoping to lure a bee close enough to kill it with their powerful venom. They can change colors too, switching from white to yellow and back as the need arises.

Outlines.

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

sunset on the farm

Timing.

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

orange leaves in downtown Bainbridge Island

Yesterday the lighting was perfect around this tree but I had no camera with me, today it was too bright – still, I like the lines.

Rollie.

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

a moth with a handlebar antenna