We stayed at Santa Rosa State Park for five days. Each morning I reported "another New York State sunny day!" Finally I got enough blue to take a picture or two.
We even did a little hiking. We saw a sign: "Lakeshore hiking trail: 0.2 miles." We thought that would be easy. It really meant "0.2 miles until you stumble onto the lakeshore hiking trail." Then the rain we weren't supposed to get started, and stopped 100 yards from a shelter.
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| My mistake. Desert tarantula, or desert blond tarantula. |
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| This froggy-toad is about 2 cm long. |
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| My bad AGAIN. Second sighting. These guys are all pomaded up for their dates. |
This morning we're in Socorro, headed somewhere else soon.
10 comments:
Oh how amazingly wonderful. I need to come visit you.
I'd be shaking my shoes for hours!!
It was perfect, because we both saw them, one of us squealed (it might have been me), and we both grabbed our cameras and ran toward them.
Absolutely, Swankie!
Male tarantula, likely. Looking for a mate. Old-timers say this signals a change in temperature coming.
Nice clear and crisp shots. Love the soaring bird. Tarantula's are good to have around they eat scorpions.
Stunning shots! Love the tarantulas - startling when you first see them, then just fascinating to watch.....sort of like teenagers :-)
Can't. Do. Spiders. Especially tarantulas. Bye.
Oops, not bye. Love the Juniper berries photo.
I'm really enjoying your little critter vignettes - great shots!
Emjay, I told a riddle: Why did the tarantula cross the road? You know the rest.
Like teenagers! LOL Jodee. You left out the part where you reflexively want to stomp them.
Ha, Nickie. I lured you back with pre-gin.
Thanks, Lorna!
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