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 : )

Ruby Tuesday - My Apologies

As I was reviewing the shots I took the last few days, I couldn't find anything really red....I had pink, purple, and orange, all of which I consider to be sort of shades of red. When I arrange my papers or my fabric, I always keep those shades close to the reds. Does that make me a bad person : ) Anyway, here is what I have to offer - "shades of red":

The butterfly plant

The Indian Pipe Vine

The thing I can never remember the name of - one of the amorphophallic or whatever plants - some years it come up like this, some years it comes up with stalks and leaves.  When it's like this, it stinks and attracts flies.  Lovely, huh?

A cactus flower.

A teeny tiny wild flower

The Passion Flower

If you were dying to see ruby, I'm sorry : ( 

To participate in Ruby Tuesday, or just to look at some great shots, click on the button to the right.  Have a happy day.  Peace.  B : )

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 : )

If you would like to look further into these memes, perhaps even join in, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.  You are guaranteed to find some fantastic shots!

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

Mellow Yellow Monday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters

Sorry, I was sick and could not post, so now I'm catching up:
Mellow Yellow Monday

There was a large building in Englewood that never got finished being built, for years and years.  They started calling it the Beirut Building.  Finally, it got demolished and this is what was left the day I got there.  Sad. Very Sad.
Shadow Shot Sunday

My apologies if you are afraid of bugs - this could be a nightmare!  A big fat beetle caught on the Venetian Waterway Park.
Color Carnival

Some of my cardstock and patterned paper that I use in my papercrafting hobby.  BTW if anyone is local and knows of a papercrafter who could use some of these (empty of course) I have two more for sale.
Camera Critters

Uh Oh - more nightmares!  This is the caterpillar that eats only the Pipe Vine (pix of which I have shown you before).  They then later hatch into the pipe vine butterfly.  I don't have any pictures of the butterfly or the pupae, but if I get any, I will certainly show you.  Have a wonderful Monday.  Merry Christmas.  Peace.  B : )

Fertilizer Friday - Twofer

Today I am ecstatic about my new tiny little camera that is my early Christmas present that the UPS man delivered yesterday.  I heard his truck and went to the front door, navigating the doggie gate, and there was no package.  As I turned, dejected, my husband was coming in the side door with the package singing "Here Comes Santa Claus".  It's magnificent.  I was very happy with the pictures my old camera produced, but it was so big I never wanted to take it anywhere, hence the tiny one.  Not much learning curve either because it's the same brand.  Giant leaps in technology since the old one and less than half what the old one cost - amazing. 

Anyway, neither of these pix were taken with that camera - I'm just feeling particularly festive so decided to give you TWO pictures - yippee.

Look Ma, muscles!!

These are pipe vines and their flowers, growing in a Porter Weed plant - both are Florida natives.  The pipe vine is kind of funny - costs a bit to buy, has loads of seeds, if you plant them they don't grow, but they plant themselves to the point that you're just overgrown with them.  So the first investment of one scraggly plant was a good one.  The unique thing about pipe vine is that they attract one certain kind of butterfly that is just gorgeous! Their seed pods look like upside down parachutes.  Just a very cool plant.  Some call them Indian Pipe Vine.  I neither know, nor care, the proper name - just love the plant, love that it's native, and love the butterflies.  Flit on over to the Fertilizer Friday button to the right and shovel some of your own : )

Have a lovely day and weekend.  Be kind to one another.  Peace.  B : )