I'm getting up close and personal with a sunflower.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
247/365
They have made the landfill close to our house into a park. We went to check it out today and climbed to the very top. We were rewarded with an awesome view of the city of Raleigh. We were probably 10-15 miles away.
246/365
September 5. To celebrate my birthday, Donald and I went to downtown Raleigh and visited the Mordecai Plantation. One of the features is a garden that is period correct to the 1800s. This grapevine was in the back and it brought back all the memories I have of my grandmother Mary's house. She had a muscadine vine and we would go under and eat the muscadines straight off the vine. So delicious! I was tempted to eat these, but decided I better not.
241/365
I went out to feed the hummingbirds and was surprised to see my mint plant has bloomed! It's hard to see the color, but it's a beautiful shade of lavender.
237/2010
When I got home from work, Donald and Thug were out walking. I sat in the driveway and waited on them. I'm not sure he had seen me at this point.
235/365
I found this mildly funny. For those of you that don't know, the device on the left is a high tech interactive cart. The device on the right is an old fashioned overhead projector. The document camera on the cart will do exactly what the overhead will do.
Monday, August 23, 2010
233/365
This hummingbird has been hanging out on the mint. He's guarding the feeder just to the left of this picture.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
231/365
I'd say we were successful at surprising Nancy last night. I can't take credit for this photo, though. My other sister, Linda, took it. She captured Nancy's astonishment!
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
227/365
Nothing like being watched by a praying mantis. He watched me the whole time, even turned his head. (I'm assuming it's a he, but it might be a she.)
Monday, August 16, 2010
226/365
I hope you're not getting tired of butterflies, but I could take pictures of them forever. I really liked this guy. You can see the flecks of pollen all over him.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
222/365
I drove in to school and had to wait on the geese to cross. They weren't too happy that I was getting close to them.
221/365
I got to help my friend Lesley with her staff development session today. She did a phenomenal job, and the teachers are EXCITED!
220/365
We've got a family of deer that live behind us in our woods. There's a buck, two does and two fawns. Here's one of our doe and the fawns. Sometimes they come up farther in the yard and eat the bird seed from our feeders!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
219/365
I've been trying to get the shutter speed just right so I can capture the feathers on the wings. I can't seem to get it quite right. This is the best I've done so far.
218/365
It's kind of hard to see, but this hawk was making lots of noise in this tree. He was so loud I thought he was on the deck.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
216/365
I thought this was a unique view of the butterfly, from the underside. Even its body is yellow.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
215/365
I was back at the school with the butterfly garden today. It is such a happy place, and so colorful. I just love the sunflowers, these had gotten so tall, the bent down and made it easy to take pictures. If you look closely in the top right corner, that blur is a butterfly.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
214/365
A quick shot of one of our male hummingbirds at the feeder. I'd rather see them than the squirrels.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
211/365
I spent some time at Airlie Gardens on Saturday. They have recently opened a butterfly house. This is not the prettiest butterfly that was in there, but it was the most comical looking.
210/365
We got to Wilmington Friday afternoon, and I took a quick walk around my in-laws back yard. What was once a beautiful garden has fallen into disarray since my mother in law had her stroke. This plant was growing on the trellis, not exactly sure what it is, but I like the green.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
207/365
Back in the spring, our 2nd grade classes worked to plant a butterfly garden. Over the summer, the custodian has been diligent about watering the garden every day. I was delighted to see how much the flowers have grown and amount of butterflies and moths it is attracting. This happens to be a hummingbird moth. They're often mistaken for hummingbirds, but it's really a moth.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
205/365
The weather channel said it was 103* with a heat index of 113. I went out very briefly to see if there was anything worthy of taking a picture of. This butterfly was just hanging out in the woods behind our house today. I wonder if it was as hot as I was?
205/365
When you make pizza dough and it's over 100 degrees outside, it rises really well. Wound up having to punch this one down.
Friday, July 23, 2010
204/365
I have finally come to terms with the squirrels eating the birdseed from my feeders. But this is not OK. Just a little while after I took this, this particular squirrel had unscrewed the bottom and emptied one of our hummingbird feeders. The next time we looked, all three of the feeders had lost their bottoms.
203/365
This has been such a busy week. Not much time for pictures, so I pulled this shot out of a video one of our student campers took. I'm reviewing another student's video.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
201/365
I apologize for the poor quality of this photo, but when I looked out the window Tuesday morning and saw the two deer in the backyard, I knew I had to take the picture. They're eating the seeds that have fallen out and are on the ground. I guess they're having a hard time finding food in this heat.
Monday, July 19, 2010
200/365
We started another camp today. This one is Techsploration, and we took the students outdoors for a photo scavenger hunt. These two guys saw the same thing at the same time.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
199/365
Today has been a busy day and I didn't have time to take pictures. So, I pulled one out of the archives for you. If you know me, you know I've been going to the beach for my entire life. A few weeks ago, I found my first shark tooth!
Saturday, July 17, 2010
198/2010
We are hearing thunder as I type this. I believe these clouds might bring us a little storm.
197/2010
This is my favorite view as we are coming in to Wilmington. We cross the Cape Fear River between Pender and New Hanover Counties on I 40. I took this shot as we driving over in the car. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of my shirt.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
195/365
My apologies for not getting my photo uploaded yesterday. Working these 10 hours days sometimes makes it difficult in the evenings to get around to everything I want. Anyway, we're in the middle of Advanced Robotics camp this week. This is my first experience with this camp, and I am amazed at what these students can do with their robots. Here's one of our campers, deeply concentrating on what he wants his robot, which is Godzilla, to do.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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