Butterfly and Flowers

Took these a couple of days ago while we were in the woods.  On the way home we saw this.......

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Josie of the Prairie

My Best Pictures from 2009--Part 2--Bugs, Birds and Flowers

Here's part 2 of my favorite pictures from 2009.

Sharp-Shinned Hawk that was setting of my picnic table

Red Tailed Hawk

Red Tailed Hawk

Up, Up and Away

Night Hawk

Quail

Young Red Tailed Hawk after a big rain storm

Flock of Turkeys 

Now for the Bugs!

Huge Hairy Spider on my front porch

Yellow Grasshopper

What are you looking at?!?!

Flower Time!

Unknown yellow flowers 

Leavenworth Eryngo

Prairie Blazing Star

Tall Goldenrod

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Josie

This ain't no Itsy, Bitsy Spider.....

This huge, hairy, CREEPY spider has decided that my front porch is his new favorite home.  This ain't no itsy, bitsy spider!!  Makes me turn on the porch lights when I go out after dark! 

Here's a couple more pictures.......

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Camera Model : Canon Rebel T1I
F-Stop : F/5.6
Exposure Time :1/60 sec.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
Focal Length : 55mm. What, did you think I was gonna get close to him?!?!?
White Balance : Shade
Camera Setting : Priority
Zoom Lens Used : 18-55mm.
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Josie

Big Eyes......

This Yellow Grasshopper was out by my front porch this evening.

I still can't figure out what kind of grasshopper this is, so I'll just call it a yellow grasshopper!

Check out those BIG eyes.........

Now, here's the new thing that I'm gonna start doing, I'm going to list all of the settings that I used while taking this picture. So, bear with me as I try to learn to use this Canon camera!

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Camera model : Canon Rebel T1I

F-Stop : F/5.6

Exposure Time : 1/60 sec.

ISO Speed : ISO-400

Focal Length : 55mm.

White Balance : Auto

Camera Setting : Macro

Zoom Lens Used : 18-55mm.

Okay, I'm done with my boring camera stuff ;)

Thanks for lookin'

Josie

The night the Devil Ninja Red Wasp Chased Mama

This was our "Trill of the Day" for last Sunday.

Okay, so we got this HUGE red wasp nest

above our front door.

And let me tell ya these are the old dark red wasps, the ones that will chase ya around the house.

So, the other evening Mama was trying to kill these wasps so she could knock the nest down. After going through one can of Raid wasp spray, she came back into the house to get another.





When she walked out the back door, she saw this coming at her ( but he was flying :-)



I could hear her hollering and cussin',
but I didn't know what about.

Trust me, you don't want to know what she really called this wasp.

Lets just say it wasn't very nice!

She finally knocked him down
but she said he was still crawling across the carport trying to get her!
Like Dad always tells us
"I hope nuthin bad ever gets
a hole of ya"

And yes she did kill the Red wasps on the nest, knocked the nest down and killed the Devil wasp!

Victory!!!!!!!

We think it might be a Spider Wasp

or maybe some kind of burrowing wasp since it didn't come off of the

Red wasp nest above the door.

Ya know what I think it is?

It's a gen-u-ine Devil Ninja Red Wasp!

Oh, the glory of living in the country!

Hope mama's wasp chase made you laugh!

Josie

P.S. HA HA HA

Gone Fishin'

Me and Dad went fishing last Saturday and we saw all kinds of prairie wildlife.

While on our way to the pond we saw a Bob-White Quail setting on the fence. He was just singing his little heart out!

Can you spot the Buffalo in this one?

When we went to the next pond, I spotted some Wild Burgamot blooming along the pond dam.

Here's a close up......

After we got done at this pond, we went back to Wild Hog Creek. Didn't catch anything but I did get a picture of a Mountain Boomer (or Collard Lizard).

Had to take the pic. from across the creek, though.

At the last pond we went to, I snapped this picture of a Widow Skimmer dragonfly posing on a little tree, just for me!

Thanks for looking!

Josie of the Prairie