More Kaleidoscope Images

I love blue with orange/yellow and red with green/gold/yellow.

Fence Post Boots

There's probably a story behind this, but I don't know what it is.
I've seen it before elsewhere.
Is it a cowboy thing?
Good photography subject, I thought. Liked the background hills.

Note: I gave these photos a little bit of a color and contrast boost with blend layers in Paint Shop Pro.

Flax

Flax fields are a pretty rusty brown blanket this time of year.

I tried different compositions on this field with the wind turbines background.


I love this one where I crouched down so the flax balls popped up:



It's the only one I got like that. Wish I would have gotten more.
You can squish the dry crispy flax balls/capsules between your fingers to see the seeds inside.
The seeds taste about like what you expect a raw seed to taste like.
These seeds were brown.

Closeup:


Here's one showing more of the wind turbines. I think there are more out there than there used to be.


Note: Contrast and Colors were pumped up a little with blend layers in Paint Shop Pro.

Woolly Bear Climbing up Jeans

Love the colors.
They are so cute.
"Woolly Bear" - isn't that a wonderful and fitting name for it too.

google images

Woolly Bear Caterpillar becomes an
Isabella Tiger Moth (Isia isabella)
google images

stages pic
larva, adult, cocoon stages image
Link referred to in post is dead. (Dated 9/30/2009.)
2009 Archives here but post no longer exists.
Is it woolly or wooly?

enchantedlearning
enature

Sage

I love this stuff.
Some kind of sage, I think.
Russian sage maybe?
I want some.
Take picture.

Curlycup Gumweed

Native August/September plant Curlycup gumweed always looks so yummy cheerful.
Bugs and butterflies love the stuff.
4 butterflies on a plant:



Clouded sulphurs or Orange sulphurs?

Previously:
sulphurs
gumweed

Meadow Fritillary

I think this is a Meadow Fritillary.



butterfliesandmoths
Meadow Fritillary (Boloria bellona)
Wing Span: 1 3/8 - 2 inches (3.5 - 5.1 cm).

North Dakota Butterflies

bugguide

npwrc
Atlas of North Dakota Butterflies

npwrc - Meadow Fritillary

ndsu

The Long Flooded Summer

Previously:
Minot Souris Flood
Bismarck Missouri Flood

So Minot Souris river area went down fairly quickly:


But for the Bismarck area, it was a l-o-n-g flooded summer:


The stench, the bugs, blocked roads, closed off areas, people canoeing to their flooded houses.
I wonder what is going to happen to all those old cottonwoods that were standing in water for months.



Some of them must be over a 100 years old.
They look stressed.
I feel so sad for those trees.
The leaves are a dull gray green color. It looks similar to when it freezes before the trees have shed their leaves. The leaves turn an ugly color and fall off.
Later I found out that the area cottonwoods (Populus deltoides) in general have a fungus (septoria leaf spot, rust).

Note: Garrison Dam Spillway was closed 17 Aug 11. Releases were 85,000 cfs at that time.
Normal for this time of year (Sep) is 21,300 cfs and river elevation just under 6 feet.

Charts are mine.
Data is here:
Bismarck Missouri
Minot Souris

Free Magazine

I discovered a free magazine download online.

Diet & Nutrition Magazine

I was reading the July 2011 issue.
Kathy Smith, well known fitness guru, is 60 years old now, wow.
Food pyramids current and past.
Corn info - how to choose it, store it, cook it, recipes.
Dance DVDs.

There are recipes online too.
Overnight Cherry Almond Oatmeal
Sounds good.

Hey, Hey, Hey

I'm really into this song:



Hey, Hey, Hey

A few more from Michael Franti & Spearhead (same album):

The Sound Of Sunshine
I'll Be Waiting

Album at Amazon
wiki on Franti

Do This On The Treadmill - LOL

Experiment: Music vs. Treadmill

I was wondering how he was going to get off that thing without hurting himself, lol.

The song is:
Untouched
By The Veronicas

Kaleidoscope Images

Just for something to do I ran Paint Shop Pro Kaleidoscope on some of my photos.
Here's some I liked.

Maple Leaves Photo:


Spirea Leaves Photo:


Petunia Blossom Photo:

Firefox 6 - View Source Code

Menu Change:
View, Page Source
moved to
Tools, Web Developer
Ctrl/U still works.
View Page Source also shows up on the Right Click popup menu of web page.

Reference
(MozillaZine forum)

Music

Don't Wanna Go Home
By Jason Derulo

Stronger
Erick Morillo & Eddie Thoneick Feat. Shawnee Taylor - Stronger (Club Mix)

The road that you travel,
Walk as far as it goes.
Don't you ever forget,
That you're never alone.
So when you feel like you've lost your way,
Something will show you the path to take.
Because you're stronger...
Because you're stronger.
Stronger than yesterday.
Stronger that what it will take.
Stronger than what they say...

Ready To Go
By Panic! At The Disco

I don't usually go for country music, but hey, this one's not too bad:
Barefoot Blue Jean Night
By Jake Owen
I like the chorus music part - starts here:
Wo-oh never gonna grow up
Wo-oh never gonna slow down
Wo-oh we were shinin' like lighters in the dark...etc.

Sing The Changes
By The Fireman (Paul McCartney) 2008

Three versions of Snow Patrol's Open Your Eyes (Strong emotions):
Video w/Lyrics (Best sound, probably.)
Live at Ward Park 2010
Live at Lowlands 2006

Hollyhocks

wiki
google images

Spider Webs

Foggy dewy morning.
Saw lots of these:

Shimmer Bokeh

I love the bokeh background on this photo.


It was shimmer or sunlight on water:


Sometimes shooting into the sunlight is a good thing.

Cabbage Butterfly

Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
Or
Small White

Same Tribe as Checkered White.

bugguide images
bugguide tree
Tribe Pierini - Cabbage Whites, Checkered Whites, Albatrosses
Genus Pieris
Genus Pontia

Graffiti Love

Graffiti:

Moves Like Jagger

Moves Like Jagger
By Maroon 5

Good workout song.



I just discovered jog.fm.
It tells you what BPM a song is and gives a list of songs by BPM.

130 BPM

Monarch Butterfly

The first thing that comes to mind upon spotting one is B-I-G butterfly.

monarch-butterfly
Good photos of Caterpillar to Chrysalis to Monarch

The male monarchs have a black spot (scent scales release pheromones) on each of the hind wings over a vein.

obsessionwithbutterflies
Good Male vs female photos here.

previously

Listening To...

One I Love
By Coldplay

Dragonflies

Field walk.
The dragonflies were active.

npwrc
Odonata of North Dakota
Order Odonata (toothed ones) - dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera)

Family Libellulidae
Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa)



npwrc
bugguide (libellula - skimmer)

Family Libellulidae
Western Meadowhawk (Sympetrum occidentale)



npwrc
bugguide (sympetrum - meadowhawks)

I love this one:

Sometime Around Midnight

Sometime Around Midnight
By The Airborne Toxic Event

Definitely captures the emotions of the story with this song.
I don't think I'd want to call myself an airborne toxic event. lol

wiki
Indie rock band from LA, CA.
On 5 Aug 2008, the band released its first full-length album, The Airborne Toxic Event.
On 6 Dec 2008, iTunes named "Sometime Around Midnight" the #1 Alternative Song of the Year on their Best of 2008 list.

‪songfacts‬‬
Everything that happened in the song actually happened.
In fact, everything on the record actually happened.
The Airborne Toxic Event album was conceived as a novel until songwriter Mikel Jollett realized his writing went better with music.
The Airborne Toxic Event took their name from the post-modern writer Don DeLillo's novel White Noise which won the National Book Award in 1985. In the story the main character is exposed to an enormous chemical explosion, dubbed "the Airborne Toxic Event," and is forced to confront his fear of death.

A few more of their songs to try:
‪Innocence‬‬
‪All At Once‬‬

Fawn Repose

In the backyard. I slowly/quietly opened the side garage door and then took photos.
Fawns are very skittish and I was surprised that he let me get several shots before he ran off.
Oh, he knew I was there right away and was looking right at me.
On this one, I think he was looking for his mama and then took off after her.
I thought that it was the perfect pose.

Chasing Cotton

Chasing a cotton ball (cottonwood tree) with a camera as it wafts down to the ground. Not an easy task to get in focus!

Learning To Fly

Learning to Fly
Tom Petty w/ Stevie Nicks
Live from Gatorville 2006
One of my all-time favorite songs.
I've never seen/heard this version before.

Another Version

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Another one to add to my list of North Dakota birds photographed.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow
(Stelgidopteryx serripennis)
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