more birds

I went back to Lion's Den today. I saw another bird I never expected to see.



A robin. It was below zero last night, and we had a high of ten degrees.

geodes

A couple of people were curious about geodes. They're are crystalline, and form in cavities underground. The crystals form on the inside walls of the cavities, and grow inwards. Many geodes you see (do a Google search) are hollow and lined with beautiful crystals. Sometimes the crystals have grown to fill up the cavity, and the geode is solid. If this kind has layers of vivid colors, they'll cut them into thin slabs and sell them. I'm sure mine don't have pretty colors, and only a couple are hollow.


Here are two of mine. The smaller one is oblong, and seven inches across at the widest. The larger one is nine or ten inches around. Ranunculus's is probably seven inches, but more spherical.

whatisit?

Can anybody guess what this is?









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ice on the lake

I went back to the park today for more pictures of the ice. I got there early enough that the sun was on the beach.



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Here's one to compare to yesterday's shot.

spiders

A week or so ago, I opened the drawer in the bathroom, to get my toothbrush, and found a tiny spider was living in it. It had built a little web inside the top corner of the drawer. Aside from the fact that he very quickly got squashed, that was a dumb place to build a web. I can't imagine much food come flying through there.

So the other night, I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth just before bedtime, and discovered another one. But this one wasn't hiding. It was in plain view. And as with his brother before him, I can't imagine much food wandering through his web.



Boy, this is turning into a regular photo blog. And I'm not done yet.