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Just clearing some photos off my phone… part 6… special pet edition…

No… we don’t want to go outside, it is hot out there. We will just stay here under the desk. Yeah, so what, I sleep in weird positions… Hey, I want to be in the pictures too! Dogs. And a … Continue reading

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Just clearing some photos off my phone… part 5… and… what the heck?

Well there seem to be a lot of crows in that Eucalyptus. Big crows. A lot of them. An unusual number. And a bunch in the tree next to that tree. Seriously… What the heck? Well, I shooed those crows … Continue reading

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Just clearing some photos off my phone… part 1…

I take a lot of pictures, especially at work where I am a security enforcement officer protecting a cancer research center. I see some weird stuff as I wander in and among the buildings. I also get to see some … Continue reading

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 5… and this is where things start to get weird…

So, you know how I have been going out in the yard and spraying spider webs with a mister bottle to make fake dew, in order to get that one perfect photo of sunlight turning all the little drops to … Continue reading

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A wildlife adventure from the jungles of San Diego… part 2…

Beneath the calm surface of the water lurks grim death with razor-sharp teeth. As my mom likes to say: Nature in the wild is seldom mild. That is true even here in San Diego. The waving palms are just camouflage … Continue reading

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A wildlife adventure from the jungles of San Diego… part 1…

Hello, this is your nature guide, Arthur, speaking to you from deepest, darkest San Diego California. Today, we will observe the splendor and terror that is nature in the wild. Hey kid, you might want to get out of the … Continue reading

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 4… once again with special super-close-up-cropped portions of each photos below the original photo!!!

Original. ZOOOOOM! I like that there are smaller strands between the main strands. Is there another, smaller spider sharing the web, or can this one make two sizes of web??? Original photo. ZAP! I like the way that order is … Continue reading

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 3…

I decided to take some of the less exciting pictures I took and crop them way down to the good parts. Other than that… I guess this post doesn’t need much explaining. I annoyed some spiders… By spraying some water… … Continue reading

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 2… now with bonus ‘super-cropped-down-extra-close-up’ versions of each photo!!!

There is one of the photos of the orb webs I took, after gently spraying them with water to simulate dew drops. One advantage of my digital camera is that it saves photos at a very large size… like 72 … Continue reading

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 1…

Yes, it was a foggy, misty morning here in San Diego, and the orb web-spinning garden spiders are getting bigger, so I took some photos. Once again, nature let me down with the dew/mist factor, so I broke out my … Continue reading

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