My granddaughter is turning out to be quite the music lover. At three months old, she already will sit nearly motionless for an hour while she’s completely enthralled by The Lawrence Welk Show. In this photo, she’s sitting on her aunt’s lap watching a Disney music video that her aunt found on YouTube. If [...]

  I never thought I’d be posting a picture of naked ladies on this blog, but that’s exactly what these flowers are called. These are growing not too far from our house. I really would like to know how these flowers got their name. I can’t imagine it has anything to do with how they [...]

  This horsefly was photographed with a combination of diopters totaling +7 (+1, +2. and +4). This little guy was on the support post of an old barn that isn’t used any more. For the record, I paid dearly for this shot… to the tune of about six tick bytes. I think it was worth [...]

  I saw this guy on the outside of the kitchen window last night. I just had to grab my camera, attach my +10 close-up lens, and get this shot. The reddish tint is because of the sunset that Skinny, here, caused me to miss shooting. There was a grasshopper on the side of the [...]

  The town of Fulton, Missouri is very proud of its geese. These guys are allowed to roam free all over the walking trail that goes around town. We were told, in fact, that if one of these geese wanders onto the road and someone hits it with their car, they get a fine. It [...]