Camera Critters

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TURTLE TONGUE

This is one of our metal turtle "sculptures".  Not the one I showed you before with the shadow skirt.  This is a different, bigger one.  He hangs out in a little patch of garden between the front of the house and the gates to the back yards, under a croton bush.  I happened to notice one day that he had a tongue and when I looked closer, this is what I saw. For some reason I just am tickled pink with this shot : )  Please note that the green turtle and plants qualify this for NaBloPoMo-Green - plus, the lizard is being green, recycling the turtle as a home : )

If you would like to see many more Camera Critter shots, and hopefully leave one of your own, please click on the button to the right.  Peace.  B : )

Camera Critters and NaBloPoMo-Green all rolled into one for your viewing convenience : )

Guess what!  No dogs for Camera Critters today : )  Here are two cards in a series I have been working on recently - going for sort of a vintage country look. These two happen to have critters on them, so I thought I'd show you.  I am in the process of moving my cards for sale from Shop Handmade to Etsy, but they're not there yet.  The premise of my shop is Just Bcards - cards for all {or no} occasions.....because most of them are blank so you can write your own original sentiment.  Anyway, enough blah blah yawn yawn - here they are:

And now for a real critter; something in the green variety so it fits in with NaBloPoMo:

This is one of the special caterpillars who eat the Indian Pipe Vine I've shown you before, and who become the special butterfly that (I think) only comes from the Indian Pipe Vine, or however all that works.  Now, guess what this is:

Give up?  This is special Indian Pipe Vine Butterfly Caterpillar

poop

Yep, that's what it is.  In all it's hopefully fertilizing glory!

Hope you enjoyed the critters.  If you'd like to see more, or maybe showcase your own, please click on the button to the right.  Peace.  B : )

Camera Critters and NaBloPoMo-Green all rolled into one for your viewing convenience : )

A critter for sure, and most definitely green!  Ever wish you could blend in like that?


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Have a happy Saturday.  Peace.  B : )

Camera Critters

Whew - Saturday already!  Recently I decided to change the "winter" bedroom from Christmas to Black/White/Red.  Evidently Jeffie really liked that change cause he's in love with the bed!

Ahh how I love my crazy boy!!

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Camera Critters

Have you ever seen a herd of snails?

Now you have, just in case it ever comes up in conversation : )

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Oh boy am I behind!! AND I have a question....

Question - has anyone else experienced any changes in Blogger?  My pictures used to go where I put them, but lately they've been going to the top of the post and I have to move them to where I want them.  It's always possible I changed a setting, being an impatient clicker, but I was wondering if this happened to anyone else????

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:

For every gardening joy

you will find at least one, maybe more, gardening upsets.  For instance, the Passion Flower (above) is invasive AND the bugs do horrible things to the veggies:

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:

Projectile vomiting cloud

COLOR CARNIVAL:

The Color Carnival meme has changed some of the rules, so I'm not quite sure this can be entered yet, but here it is before I forget it : )  I'll go check later.

SIX WORD SATURDAY:

It's hot here and humid too!

CAMERA CRITTERS:

I asked my DH why it's back was so bumpy and he said it's probably babies - don't look if critters make you squeamish : )

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:

Looks kind of Halloweenish doesn't it?

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

Look at all the little bitty palm trees along the curves of my car - looks like custom pin striping!!

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Sure hope your weekend is going great - and that next week is even better.  Peace.  B : )

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Happy Birthday to my amazing husband, Victor!! (Sunday)

COLOR CARNIVAL:

Did I use this before?  Can't remember : )

CAMERA CRITTERS:

SIX WORD SATURDAY:

Thank you Vets; we appreciate you!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:

Gotta love St. Francis for he so loved the animals : )

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

If you would care to see more of these memes, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.  Have a great holiday weekend, and please take at least a minute to recognize and appreciate the reason for the holiday.  Peace.  B : )

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Holy Camoley, is it the weekend already?  I have to go back to work; this busy retired life is killing me!

COLOR CARNIVAL:
And yes, I forgot to vote again, but the three winners this week are certainly more than deserving!  That one with the thread makes me drool.  Speaking of drooling, here's Mikey's cake for this year -

and it was sooooo good - gotta LOVE a Publix cake!

CAMERA CRITTERS:
Here I was trying to take some good pictures of the White Bird of Paradise.  This is harder than you think because, for one thing, it's very tall, and the flowers are a translucent-irridescent sort of off white color, like those pretty paint jobs on expensive cars.  Except for one petal on each flower which is a pastel shade of, ohhhh, probably periwinkle (check your Crayola box). All around the flowers, the plant is pretty nasty.  Anyway, when I checked the pictures, there was a bird, in every shot.  Can you find him/her in all of them?

Did you find them all?

SIX WORD SATURDAY:
God, please help the oily wildlife.

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:
Eeek - is it a monster?  Is it an upside down giant bunny?

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

Here is Joy, reflecting on the relections in the pool..reflecting on whether or not she will ever get in it...reflecting on when her Daddy might be not too busy to finish it..reflecting on how her Mommy thinks it is a blessing, finished or not : )

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Peace : )

Fertilizer Friday, SkyWatch Friday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Another busy week, thus multiple memes.  I cannot believe how busy one can be when retired.  To do all I used to do when I worked - well, I'm pretty sure I was SuperWoman....and I know that all of you who are still out there slaving to make a living are SuperWomen too!  And men too, I guess, if you don't have a woman who does it all for you : )

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FERTILIZER FRIDAY - Freaky Peachy

SKYWATCH FRIDAY - tire tracks in the sky??

COLOR CARNIVAL - a napkin from Mikey's birthday party!

CAMERA CRITTERS - the lizard who thought he was the turtle's tongue

SIX WORD SATURDAY - MOTHER'S DAY GONE; FATHER'S DAY COMING!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - right smack across the picture!

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS - Lincoln is looking at his face in the pool water - look closely and you can see it too.

Hope you are having, and continue to have, a wonderful weekend.  I know, I know, Monday is coming up fast, ugh, but just try to think of it as a new beginning : )  It helps, honest.  Peace.  B : )



I would be honored if you would visit my new on-line store and see some of the cards I have been making. Feel free to purchase some if you would like : ) http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb

SkyWatch Friday, Fertilizer Friday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Another busy post.  If you would care to see many magnificent shots, or would like to share your own, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right to join in on any/all of these memes.

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:
Zorro in the sky : )

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:
I (heart) tomatoes

COLOR CARNIVAL:
Looks like fireworks

CAMERA CRITTERS:
Nitey-nite big bird

SIX WORD SATURDAY:
GOD BLESS MOTHERS; WHAT A JOB!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:
"Compound" shadows...me, my shadow, Murphy, Murphy's shadow, my shadow again.  This is a shot of a really cute little girl doggie at the dog park - just six months old, named Murphy.

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:
Gingerbread reflections (maybe some shadows too) on windows, walls, and metal roof.

Have a wonderful weekend.  Take some time to honor all the mothers in your life - they're doing a really hard job.  All of you who are mothers - take some time to relax and realize just how special you are.  Peace.  B : )


I would be honored if you would visit my new on-line store and see some of the cards I have been making. Feel free to purchase some if you would like : ) http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb

SkyWatch Friday, Fertilizer Friday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Edited to add the Weekend Reflections picture - Allhorsestuff, you were right, the shot did not get posted.  I'm pretty sure the problem was between the monitor and the chair : )  Thanks for telling me!!

Sorry, got busy and didn't post Friday, so now there are lots!  To participate in any of these great memes, or just to go look at some out of this world terrific photos, just click on the appropriate buttons to the right.

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:

A lovely early evening view from the patio at our Aunt Doris and Uncle Mike's house.

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:
I LOVE gazanias, just love them.  I had two and lost them in the cold spell, but one had re-seeded itself and it came up with spring.  I decided to get lots of gazanias and plant them all in one place as a startling burst of color, a happy spot, and because if it gets cold again I can cover them all up.  Gazanias go to bed at night.  Here are some shots of the re-seeded gazania, sleeping and awake, and a shot of the TEN gazanias I bought yesterday, all still sleeping this morning.  Hey, they're only 97 cents! : )  When they're open, their colors are brilliant.  They also had a purplish pinkinsh maroonish color, but that wasn't what I was looking for.

COLOR CARNIVAL:

Just look at that sunbeam to the left, isn't that gorgeous?  The funny thing behind the flower is one of those landscape stones, scalloped, that you put in a ring around your trees.  I got it years ago and the kids and I painted it.  It's a scene with a mountain and a rainbow and it says Peace and has the kids' names on it.

CAMERA CRITTERS:
This kind of critter you DON'T want in your garden, and they're hard to locate when the pot is full of lush bushy plants.  Well, it's not anymore, thanks to these guys.  Oh well, the food chain, we all have to live in it.

Sure hope they enjoyed the tomatoes.  You know, the warm weather and all the beautiful plants in Florida are wonderful, but a decent food garden is quite a challenge - and I miss lilacs : )

SIX WORD SATURDAY:

Busy week; maybe I'll relax today!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:
All kinds of pretty shadows amongst the leaves in the pomegranate

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:
Funny, when I categorized this photo, I didn't even put it in the Weekend Reflections file because I didn't even notice all the reflections.  Pretty silly of me since they're all over the truck, and the cars, and I had the camera on such a close-up setting that I even got that one driver's face in his mirror!  Funny too, the next shot I got was while I was driving by the statue and I didn't even look, just shot and it wound up being a shot up the nurses's skirt, but, no reflections, so you don't get to see it : )

Have a wonderful weekend and peace to you all. B : )


I would be honored if you would visit my new on-line store and see some of the cards I have been making. Feel free to purchase some if you would like : ) http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb