Bullfrog of the day! Thursday, 2 July 2026

The elegant Red-bellied Woodpecker juveniles on front yard cypress tree ... 🤔 elegant means really goofy, right? 🌿 🪶

I have QR Code 𖣯 Aversion

Male wool carder bees - spikes on rear - sitting on lamb's ears - they're aggressive, flying around territory & smacking into other pollinators large and small. They look like drunken linebackers. I have seen them hit big carpenter bees - then zoom off to smack into little sweat bees #Inverts

On my front porch once - different angles on an orchard orbweaver (Lecauge venusta) Cincinnati, Ohio (July 2023)

Reproval with Bokeh #Sqrlpix

Bullfrog of the day! Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Summer ...

This might be how I feel ... the heat, the family ... all the stuff here, there, everywhere ...

Zinnias ...

Northern Cardinal in a cypress tree ... we see one another 🪶

"Summer" (c) constance lee menefee

Mute Swan portrait 🪶

Neither trees nor we know how age will transform us, but trees don't worry and we make a lifetime of it ... 💚

Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 30 June 2026

Twelve-spotted skimmers and Halloween pennants - astonishing beings that share our planet 🌿 #Dragonflies ##Odonata #Inverts

There are a variety of clubtails that look similar! I don't think the unicorn clubtail's range is that far south. I have marked in red the distinguishing yellow-green ridge (unicorn horn) between the male's eyes. These beauties show up in the same general area of a cemetery I frequent. #Inverts

So I was standing in this big parking squinting at what I decided had be a Red-tailed Hawk waaa-y up high. Normal.

2013 Season Big Red (on eggs) expressing strong opinions because Ezra brought shrubbery only and no snacks - it was probably the wrong shrubbery too - Big Red always had strong opinions about the type and size of sticks & leaves that Ezra brought 🪶

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We haven't had enough hornbills lately ... Black-casqued Hornbill and yellow-billed Hornbill at the Cincinnati Zoo 🪶

Unicorn clubtail!

Skippers! You can see their characteristic antennae with hooked tips ... n a couple of images you can see the proboscis (coiled tube-like tongue) probing for nectar ... Skippers are butterflies in the family Hesperiidae 🌿 #Invertebrates

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Bullfrog of the day! Friday, 13 Dec 2024

Starting the day with a several hour power outage has scrambled my brain. It was a couple of thousand households, but it is over now. 🥴

Hibiscus from past years ...

Bullfrog of the day! Monday, 29 June 2026

Two Ducks in Summer 🪶

"Midnight Sun" (c) constance lee menefee

Chipmunk moment ... #Sqrlpix

Bullfrog of the day! Sunday, 28 June 2026

They've started big booming fireworks already 😵‍💫

Bees you might see if you look carefully ... Top bee: I've seen the bicolored striped sweat bee more often than I realized until I looked at older (not as clear) photographs. The bottom two bees: woolcarder & leafcutter bees ... fascinating life histories #Inverts

I do not have snakes, but my husband brought some home periodically - one was a pregnant garter snake who gave birth to about 30 little replicas. This was quite a surprise one morning! Several had two heads (so, not all exactly replicas.) Released all on my parent's 17 acres out in the country.

Look, I really do not care about celebrity weddings.

Owlets & Moon - from the CLM #PenAndInk Archives #SciArt 🪶

All my best to Venezuela 💕

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My 28" VIZIO TV is 12 years old & is perfectly fine. The remote died (or so my best investigation determined) - I gambled $6 for a replacement remote via mail, rather than hunt down a smallish TV. Now I can - again - watch the world burn 🔥

Hoverflies (Syrphidae) are important, if incidental, pollinators and larval forms are busy insect eaters (of plant-eating insects); some aid in decomposition- rat-tailed maggots (Eristalis tenax) #Inverts <https://www.ceh.ac.uk/press/new-data-insect-pollinators-shows-dramatic-decline-hoverflies

Reflections during Autumn ...

This is scrutiny ... #Sqrlpix #Birds

Eastern tiger swallowtail & yellow zinnia ... #Inverts

Bullfrog of the day! Saturday, 27 June 2026

On my walk in Thursday, I managed to catch an airplane ...

Silver-spotted skipper on purple loosestrife #Inverts

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All my best to Venezuela 💕

Hydrangeas (their clusters are colorful sepals plus tiny fertile flowers), rose of sharon, and cypress knee bridge - a soft drizzle day ...