Rays on the desktop from the rising sun created a scene of sunlight and shadow that caught my eye. Even the ordinary can appear extraordinary when seen in a different light.
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Column Calamity
Top left: first Winogradsky column. lower right: New Winogradsky Column in protected area. Other images: Handiworks of Mr. Racoon including incriminating footprints. It is known as a Winogradsky Column and is supposed to be an environment for microbes, full of mud, water, paper shreds, and an egg yolk. Mix it together, then put it inContinue reading “Column Calamity”
Home Sweet Home
While tidying up our pineapple plot, we discovered this frog snugly resting on a leaf. These pineapple plants produce really delicious fruit, so this frog has a very sweet home indeed.
Plumeria and the Phoenix
Like a phoenix arising from its own ashes, these shoots are budding replacements for the tree from which they were taken. The tree itself was killed in a hard freeze this winter, but these shoots were taken before the freeze and kept safe in the shed. When they started to bud while in a boxContinue reading “Plumeria and the Phoenix”
Temporary Tranquility
A typically tranquil scene with peace and quiet, until the airboat fires up and blows the quiet to pieces.
Kitty Cola
Cat-as-cat-can, or just another coke joke?
Con Art
At least seven contrails cross the canvas of the sky in the light of the setting sun. Perhaps the scene could be considered ”Con Art,” in which case, might the pilots of the planes leaving the trails be considered con artists?
Seriously?
Does anyone with less than four legs really think that would be ok?!? 😲
Ayo Pictographs
Yesterday’s image of the “Kong Rock” was in Aruba’s Ayo Rock Formations as are the two images above. These pictographs were carved into the stone by the native Arawak people and were thought to be of spiritual significance. Fortunately, they were preserved in a shallow cave, and the entrances are blocked by strong iron barsContinue reading “Ayo Pictographs”
Rock Kong
We all went “ape” over this boulder at a park in Aruba. Fortuitous erosion of this granite monolith produced a face-like form resembling an angry King Kong. Good thing it wasn’t the real Kong; those standing near it would not have been so placid.