Thursday, April 30, 2009
The First 100 Days Down ...
Only 1381 days to go. January 20, 2013, cannot come too soon.
-tdr
Update: Okay, I added wrong. That's 1361 days to go. Even better.
-tdr
Update: Okay, I added wrong. That's 1361 days to go. Even better.
Monday, April 13, 2009
In The Macroverse: Beauty And Grace.
While some of us spent Sunday morning relaxing in the yard, at the insect level it was just another day of working to survive. Here's a pollen-laden bee hovering among the branches of a San Diego Sunflower. 
This fierce-looking spider sits on another San Diego Sunflower bush nearby. Click the photo for a closeup of the spider's face. Its fu manchu mustache-like markings alone are worth the look. 
I have no idea what this flying insect is or the flower it's resting on but they're both strikingly beautiful.
The flower's beauty is obvious to the naked eye. The insect is so small that to the naked eye it appears to be nothing much. Only under magnification is its beauty revealed to the human eye. Do other insects notice? Who can say? As far as we know, the aesthetics of a thing is appreciated only by human beings. These creatures live lives of unobserved grace and beauty.
To see more, go to my photos page at picasaweb.google.com/tdavera/InTheMacroverse and scroll to the end for the most recent additions. (Here.)
-tdr
Update: The flower in the bottom photo is a Tidy Tips and the insect is a hover fly.
This fierce-looking spider sits on another San Diego Sunflower bush nearby. Click the photo for a closeup of the spider's face. Its fu manchu mustache-like markings alone are worth the look. 
I have no idea what this flying insect is or the flower it's resting on but they're both strikingly beautiful.
The flower's beauty is obvious to the naked eye. The insect is so small that to the naked eye it appears to be nothing much. Only under magnification is its beauty revealed to the human eye. Do other insects notice? Who can say? As far as we know, the aesthetics of a thing is appreciated only by human beings. These creatures live lives of unobserved grace and beauty.To see more, go to my photos page at picasaweb.google.com/tdavera/InTheMacroverse and scroll to the end for the most recent additions. (Here.)
-tdr
Update: The flower in the bottom photo is a Tidy Tips and the insect is a hover fly.
Labels: Insects, Macrophotos, Nature, Photography
Friday, April 03, 2009
First Treasury Secretary From Metaluna.
Could Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner be an alien? Here's Geithner.
And here's Metalunan scientist, Exeter, from the classic 1955 scifi movie, This Island Earth. (Here.)
It's a forehead thing. We report, you decide.
-tdr
And here's Metalunan scientist, Exeter, from the classic 1955 scifi movie, This Island Earth. (Here.)
It's a forehead thing. We report, you decide.
-tdr
Labels: Politics, Science Fiction
