I'm mildly famous again

Once again, one of my pictures has been selected to appear on Insect Picture of the Day. The picture's pretty good, but the writeup totally makes it worthwhile to visit. I'm actually a couple of days behind reporting this. I guess my laziness extends to self-promotion as well as work deadlines and chores.

In case you missed it, one of my pics was featured on a past Spider Friday over there. Many thanks to David Brady for providing such a cool site!

Setting Priorities

We had my daughter's 2-year birthday party yesterday. In the middle of it, as I was showing off my garden, I dashed back inside and demanded the camera from my wife. You can get pictures of a cute, adorable two-year-old anytime. What you can't get is a shot of the awesome spider sitting in the bud of a sunflower! When I came back in I plugged the camera in to the TV and started flipping through all the pictures I'd taken the last few days of bugs. I was explaining (in my authoritative pseudo-expert way) what kind they were, whether they were beneficial to my garden, why they had the coloration they did, etc. One guest asked, "How do you know all this stuff about bugs?", to which I replied, "I read Insect Picture of the Day".

Props to David Brady for this awesome site and the inspiration he has created in me to go crawling around bravely photographing creepy-crawlies that make others scream like little girls.

Except for little girls. Or at least my little girl. The cries of joy, "Daddy, bug! 'pider, 'pider!", as she examines the tiny spiders running along the porch are just too adorable!

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Tags: bugs, spiders, cuteness