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Reno the Moth Slayer

Photodork — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:40:10 +0000

One of the things I’d eventually like to incorporate onto this site is the occasional photograph by another artist. So many great images exist and I truly believe that something can be gained by looking at the work of others. In fact, my intention was to link to one yesterday, because there is a photographer that takes incredible aerial images, so it would have tied in nicely to my airplane photographs. But then, as I am so prone to, I got distracted with other thoughts and ideas and well, I blew it. I briefly considered posting the images today, because they still would have tied in and because yesterday I was completely unmotivated to do anything, including photograph. Dylan said that would be a cop-out though, and even though I told him that he was a cop-out (I know, such a great comeback), I found myself bending to peer pressure. And, just to show him, I came up with not one, but two Photos of the Day. That’s right, two. Go ahead and be impressed, I won’t tell anyone.

One of the things that I missed most while we were in New Mexico were the fuzzy little terrorists that I tell myself are cats. Now, part of it was because I am sort of a crazy cat lady (once you have more than two, the label automatically comes, you don’t even have to talk to them or throw them birthday parties) but the other part of it was more practical. I hate moths, people. I can’t even impress upon you how much I dislike them, so just go with me on this. Luckily, since we got cats, it is not something I’ve ever had to worry about. Other people fill a bucket with soapy water to set a moth-trap. We leave on a lamp and set a chair next to it for the cats to use as a springboard. It’s awesome and has made me slightly complacent about the whole thing. Enter our trip to New Mexico, where no cats inhabited our hotel room and it’s the middle of moth season. It wasn’t pretty folks.

It makes sense then that one of the first things I photographed when I got home were the cats. This is Reno, looking quite docile and nice, but don’t let the images fool you. He’s a moth-hunting machine. And also a cantankerous, howling little creep who awoke us at 4:45 this morning. 4:45. In the morning. I guess you gotta take the good with the bad. But dang, people. 4:45.

All I Got

Photodork — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:11:29 +0000

Right. So, as sometimes happens, things exploded yesterday. I mean, obviously nothing actually exploded, except for maybe my schedule and feeling of calm…those kind of went right out the window. Things should settle down a bit tomorrow (for a couple of days anyhow) so I promise a better, more complete post then. For now, to make up for the lack of text, I’m leaving you with two photos for the day.

And one of them is even of the pestilent little ginger that dominates, well, everything he can pretty much reach. Captured at a rare moment, when ruling the world was not the first item on his agenda.

Something New

Photodork — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:00:06 +0000

It might have seemed like Dylan and I’s trip to Eaton Grove was purely for photo purposes, but in actuality we went there with the goal of buying flowers to fill the large (as in 8 feet long and nearly 2 feet wide) planter that we’d built. I know, we think we’re pretty cool too. So far, I’ve refrained from photographing said flower box, just so it doesn’t get old later in the Summer when things really start blooming and I become obsessed with documenting it extensively. I figure that way I’ll have proof that I don’t always kill absolutely everything I plant.

One of the flowers we chose to plant were poppies and so far they’ve been kind of droopy, making me fretful and anxious which I usually save for later on in the growing process when I’ve neglected to water things for several days. Today, however, Dylan came upstairs and presented me with the shell of the poppy flower. One of them has hatched! Or whatever it is that flowers do between the time they shed their pods and bloom. I’m pretty excited about it, if you couldn’t tell by the fact that not only did I photograph said pod, but also devoted an entire post to it. Oh well…it’s not like you visit my site just for the stories, right?