It's been a while, but I'm still at it!
Here's an assortment of 10 new photos from my latest adventures.
Here's an assortment of 10 new photos from my latest adventures.
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NJS photostream is now available on Flickr! This is perfect if you want to see all the pics without navigating around. Finally you've found a hiding place, a crevice amidst the bark and leaves. You'll be safe here. No one will find you. But there's a rustling. Then, suddenly, a monster appears! It's hundreds of times your size. It has only four limbs and only two eyes. Hideous. And now there's a domed lens in your face. Metal tubes, shutter clicks, mechanical whirring ... Is this some freaky robot monster? Oh, that's even worse! You slowly peek out between your frontmost legs. Is it safe now? Is the annoying photographer gone?  I'm gone. And so are the Twelve Nights of Halloween!
Thank you for the portrait, lovely spider. Happy Halloween to you and to all! It's dark and splintered, stretching its gaunt fingers like the bony hands of a wraith. Reaching for you. Blocking your path. You won't escape those tangled brambles, not before it's too late.  Or you could just walk around it. Maybe we'll find something scarier tomorrow.
She came into your house--this bizarre, hunchbacked critter. This intruder's got wild stripes and a nasty-looking spike on her rear. So many spines and appendages! And those eyes ... It's space alien, for sure. Will she drag you back to the mothership?  Relax, no one's about to get probed. This is a camel cricket! It's true her species isn't from around here, but they hail from overseas, not outer space. And she just stepped indoors to escape the autumn chill. Make any quick move, and she'll leap for the corner to hide.
Can we find something scarier next time? His eyes are bigger than his brain. He can watch you from any direction, analyzing you with perhaps the most sophisticated color vision on the planet. He knows where you are. He knows where you're going. And he flies faster than you can run.  But how scary can a dragonfly be when he's a living jewel of the sky? Multicolored, brilliantly shimmering, decorating every stem and stone he lands on ...
Well, maybe we'll find something scarier tomorrow. The first snow of the year adds eerie ambiance to the Halloween holiday. Stark contrasts on skeleton trees, clouds to block out the sun. Plus a ghostly haze to ensure you don't know what's lurking just a few steps in front of you. That chill in your bones, is it fear?  Or maybe the scariest thing is how this first snow comes right in time to make trick-or-treating a cold slushy mess.
Perhaps we'll find something scarier next time. Sticky threads, armored spines, serious fangs. Legs included, she's almost as big as your hand. Plenty of spiders will build their web in a tree. She built her web between trees. And she's not alone. There are dozens of her kind in this cove of trees. You're surrounded. Step away slowly.  Step away, because she's got no time for you. This orb weaver's busy tidying up her web. She's not after you, she's just cleaning house. And housework is way scarier than any spider, if you ask me.
Let's try for something scarier next time, huh? The trees themselves seem to take Halloween seriously. They'll turn their leaves blood red or pumpkin orange, and then they'll drop 'em all and dress up like skeletons. Boo!  It's an overused costume, trees. And why do you insist on wearing it all winter long? You won't get any more candy.
Let's try to find something scarier tomorrow. She's long and sleek, big-jawed and covered in dragon-tough scales. She moves fast and whips like a snake. She can detach her own tail and leave it twitching far behind her--a zombie in the leaves.  But this zombie-spawner is shy, and she won't show her sweet face for long. So see ya later, alligator!
Lizard. Alligator lizard. Maybe we can find something scarier next time. |
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