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Fire Ant Flickers (#9)

Photo: Trees on a foggy morning in Texas

Signs of spring, food and drink recommendations, and proof that my pivot from zoology to accounting was a wise choice.

Published Friday, 28 March 2025, 19:51
Categorized as Big C & Me, Food & Drink, Photography, Wildlife - Invertebrates Tagged Best Day Brewing, centipede, horsehair worm, Sayso

Words || Pictures
This is what happens when I run out of potentially interesting things to write.

Photo: Sunset viewed from Marble Falls, Texas

Here are some photos I took of various things in various places, and a couple I didn’t take. Just so you know.

Published Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 13:11
Categorized as Photography, Travel Tagged photography, South Padre Island, SpaceX

Fire Ant Flickers (#7)
I needed to clear a few browser tabs. Sorry about that.

Blurry foggy morning

Wherein I learn I need better photographic equipment and the brain to use it. Also, a transparent TV is an oxymoron, but tell that to the Koreans. And, finally, a tip for getting out of a situation that you’ll swear wasn’t your fault.

Published Thursday, 16 January 2025, 6:00
Categorized as Cars, Photography, Science, Technology, Tools & DIY Tagged Mars, occultation, zip ties

My favorite photos of 2024
This is the time of year that everyone publishes their "best of..." stories. Mine always starts and ends with photos.

Photo: The Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs at Stable Hall in San Antonio, TX
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band performing at Stable Hall in San Antonio, TX

A quick lookback at 2024 through the lenses of my cameras.

Published Friday, 27 December 2024, 17:09
Categorized as Nature, Photography, Travel

Fire Ant Flickers (#3)

Just in case you had any doubts...

Poking fun at the MSM; Cleverly performed music; bird [mis]identification; universal antivenom on the horizon. And a bit more!

Published Thursday, 15 August 2024, 11:24
Categorized as Books & Writing..., Fire Ant Flickers, Medicine, Music, Photography, Science, Nature & Medicine..., Travel, Wildlife - Birds, Wildlife - Snakes Tagged bluegrass, cormorant, newspapers, style guide, The Cleverlys, ThinkPad, universal antivenom

Fire Ant Flickers (#1)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Altered photo of lighthouse on Lake LBJ (Texas)

Welcome to the first installment of Fire Ant Flickers, which is indistinguishable from a Random Thursday post, but that’s just a fluke of timing. Really.

Published Thursday, 11 July 2024, 13:57
Categorized as Fire Ant Flickers, Horseshoe Bay, Photography, Texas Hill Country, Weather, Wildlife - Invertebrates Tagged butterfly, kayak, Sea Eagle, wasp

Random Thursday
It's summer and the living is...always surprising.

We’ve had a parade of kids, adults, and dogs at our place through most of June, and randomness is the operative term for pretty much everything.

Published Thursday, 20 June 2024, 11:23
Categorized as Movies, Photography, Random Thursday, Wildlife - Amphibians Tagged dogs, family, Inside Out 2, memes, tree frog

Gigapixel: AI Done Right
There are some AI applications that border on magic.

AI is everywhere, in everything, all the time, or so it seems, and the common thread is that it’s underwhelming. Fortunately, there are some exceptions.

Published Thursday, 16 May 2024, 15:52
Categorized as AI, Photography Tagged Affinity Photo 2, Gigagpixel AI, photography

Random Thursday: The [Mostly] Photos Edition
Anything worthy seeing is worth photographing.

Photo: Panorama of the view from our back porch
"...doo doo doo, lookin' out my back door..."

A variety of pictures of plants, animals, fungi, and dissected machinery. You know, the usual.

Published Thursday, 25 April 2024, 13:11
Categorized as Photography, Plant Life, Random Thursday, Wildlife - Mammals Tagged photography, squirrels, wildflowers

Drone Drama: Downed & Drowned
The eclipse was awesome, but the related trauma wasn't.

Image: partial eclipse appearing to eat a drone

The fact that the eclipse could wreck my drone was apparently not a surprise to anyone but me.

Published Thursday, 11 April 2024, 15:34
Categorized as Nature, Photography, Science, Technology Tagged drone, eclipse, GPS

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