Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Last night was a full moon - or mostly a full moon, so I tried to catch it.

Today was my usual Saturday spider adventure - only this time, a surprise. I had not been for several weeks - and today, it was not possible to walk my usual path as fences had been erected and buildings clothed in blue wrappers

Looking toward our condo building

No crab spiders today - first time in perhaps 6 months. However, orb weavers were out. Here is an Argiope

And my favorite, Melastomataceae

There was little to capture. A small Nephila web but required flash and the light was too harsh. Went to McDonalds for a cocke and walking back found a lynx on top of a fern leaf - dry

As I was setting up to capture more, it started to rain - at the peak of the rain

Another view

And another view

Here a drop acts as a lens

And now its stopped raining and the lynx has only a few rain drops

Sort of laying over the leaf

Eyes of a lynx

She hid under the leaf and I coaxed her out. Here she is panning two leaves

Here a wet Melastomataceae

And our Argiope

Yellow rain drops

Wet little orchids

Refracted view of a garden

HDB upside down

C. Frank Starmer

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