It's been a while since I posted some nature pictures from the house. This scorpion was hanging out under my daughter's sand box. I was on the deck by the pool, when I went to move it I found a gazillion termites nomming away and this scorpion. I was able to go get my camera, cut out the wood and turn it over and he was still there. Got quite a few pictures, the best were with my canon point and shoot in digital macro mode.
A spider we found in the pool. He was dead I think.
There's been an awful skunk smell for the last week or so, then we finally saw a skunk carcass in the neighbors yard, it was easy to see, it's where all the flied were (yuk!). Not long after, two Turkey Vultures showed up to nom it.
Just today I was pulling up weeds when this 24" long king snake got pretty upset with me and started shaking his tail at me. It even rattled. It was super scary.
On a foggy summer morning the spider webs look pretty awesome. This one's quite the mess in our orange tree.
This is more like it and stretches from our orange tree to our lemon tree.
This one reminds me of the article about how
different drugs affect the webs of spiders.
As usual I'm now adding these pictures to the
Field Guide Album as I find them.
