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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:20 AM
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I'm back from my week-long field course! What did i miss? (pic heavy!)
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 11:23 AM by SallyMander

I mean, besides my fabulous birthday thread by the wonderful VenusRising - thanks to her and everyone who replied! I wish i could have responded to you all individually, but things were crazy and the internet connection was pretty lousy.

In any case, i *really* appreciated it! :loveya:

I thought some of you (ahem, DarkTirade) might enjoy some pics from the week! Others (ahem, lost-in-nj) should just skip them. :D

Slimy salamander:


Long-tailed salamander:


Marbled salamander:


Fox snake in a tree:


Pile of baby water snakes:


Neat dragonfly/damselfly shots:
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:10 PM
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1. omg what lovely lil' manders!
:loveya: I love the salamanders, I want to handle each of them :loveya: I kinda love the snakes too I think!

These dragonflies look great, it reminds me I need to get out there and snap some butterfly photos.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:36 PM
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6. You would especially love the fox snake!

I think they are totally gorgeous, and they are the mellowest snakes ever! We plucked that one right out of the tree and he didn't bat an eye (not that they have eyelids...). They're really docile. :)

Glad you liked the mander pics! :D :bounce:

:hug:
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:12 PM
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2. Wow, great shots.
What kind of camera and lens are you using there?
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:37 PM
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7. Thanks janesez!

I got a new camera a couple weeks ago just for this trip, and i'm still figuring out how to use it! It's a Canon S5-IS. I absolutely love it. I picked it because i wanted a really good zoom range, but also a good macro function, since i'm usually doing wildlife photos. It actually has a "super macro" setting, in which the camera can focus on something that's SITTING ON ITS LENS! :o

:hi:
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:11 PM
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20. Ah, okay. Wicked expensive camera, then. :)
I have a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi and I was hoping you had one like that and a super-awesome lens I could buy to take pics like that! I want a macro lens badly.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:13 PM
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24. You can get it on Ebay for about $250

So it's pricy, but not ridiculous. Mine was a bit more because i was in a rush and bought it at a camera store. The macro is super fun. You should solicit early (or late) b-day donations from your friends and family. :D
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:15 PM
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3. Dragonflies !! Nicely Done !! Pile of snakes --
meh...not so much :D

really though, great work!
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:38 PM
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9. LOL

Thanks TA! Your opinion probably reflects the majority view! :D

:hi:
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:18 PM
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4. SallyMander turned me into a newt!
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:38 PM
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10. Don't worry, i'll turn you back

right after i snap a few photos! :D

:hi:
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:10 PM
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5. Those are awesome, SallyMander!!
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 02:12 PM by VenusRising
Very nice pictures.

Did you enjoy your time at Stone Lab? It looks really beautiful in the Summer Schedule Pamphlets we always get. :)

:hi::hug:

Welcome home. :D
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:39 PM
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11. Thanks sweetie!

I had a blast! I can't believe how fast the week went. It really is lovely out there. Almost like being on the coast back home, but less salty. :D

How are you doing? :hug: :loveya: :hug:
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:04 PM
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17. I'm actually good.
The baby shower was yesterday, and everything went really well.

Here's the cake I made for the shower. My nephew is due in one month. :D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7832602

:hug::loveya::hug:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:09 PM
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18. OMG!!!

I am beyond impressed!!! :wow:

That cake is gorgeous! And i bet it was tasty too! :9

:hug:
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:11 PM
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22. Thank you.
:)

My sister took the whole top layer. :rofl:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:14 PM
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25. To eat or to save?

I guess people always save wedding cake... it can't taste that good a year later though! :P
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:27 PM
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27. No, to eat.
She was eating everything in her path yesterday. It was actually pretty funny.

Lesson I learned: Do NOT come between a hungry pregnant gitl with a fork and anything she may want to eat. :rofl:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:28 PM
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28. "Ow! Ow! That's my arm!!!"

:rofl:
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:30 PM
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30. Let's just say there were skin perforations involved.
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 03:30 PM by VenusRising
:rofl:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:38 PM
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8. Beautiful pics! Thanks for sharing your good time with us!
And happy birthday!
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:40 PM
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13. Thanks Peake!

I had a super birthday week. :D

:hi:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:40 PM
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12. Welcome Back Sally!!!
Love the pictures!!!!

the pile of snakes creeps me out though!!!!

:)


Love the dragonflies!!!!!!

:hi:


lost
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:41 PM
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14. Hehee, i knew you wouldn't like those snakes

I warned you! :D

Glad you liked the dragonflies - i thought they were beautiful!

How have you been? :hug:
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:42 PM
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15. I moved...
and didn't get to tell you goodbye. :cry:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:10 PM
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19. Well, you'll just have to come back and visit

I might hold lelapin hostage to ensure this! :evilgrin:

Or maybe Iza and i will cruise up to Wisconsin in the Vanagon! :D

Seriously though, i'm so happy everything is working out for you sweetie. You deserve all the best. Have you started the new job yet? And is the apartment as fabulous as it looked?

:hug: :loveya: :hug:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:45 PM
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16. What awesome pics! Did you take all those?
Very awesome!
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:11 PM
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21. I did take them! Thank you!

I can't take credit though; i have a new camera that made it easy. :D

:hi:
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:13 PM
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23. I used to co-habit with some kind of lizard...
...when I worked in the Negev Desert. It ate the ants and mossies. The caravan was so small, I'd sometimes feel it loping over me, while I was in bed.

Snakes weren't so friendly. Vipers (and scorpions, and deadly spiders and the Jericho fly) lurked out in the fields. The wife of the farmer I worked for was snake-phobic and saw snakes everywhere. Actually, they were irrigation hoses - from which snakes evolved.;-)
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:16 PM
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26. We only saw one venomous snake on the trip

A massasauga rattlesnake. Definitely have to treat those guys with respect! I prefer the little garter snakes - worst thing they do is poop on you. ;)



I'll have to read up on this irrigation hose-to-snake evolution hypothesis! :rofl:
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:29 PM
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aren't the water snakes deadly?
or is that only the ones in the pacific area?
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:34 PM
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32. Water snakes are often confused with cottonmouths (water moccasins)
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 03:37 PM by SallyMander

which ARE venomous. Not sure what species are found out west, though. The ones we have here (northern and Lake Erie water snakes) are non-venomous, but they are stinky and bitey!

:hi:


Edit to add pic:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 04:48 PM
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41. We had the nice little poisonous ones in FL when I lived there
but I didn't come across them very often 'cause I didn't usually live near water. :) 99% of the snakes I saw there were the nice harmless little black racers, or another black kind that I never found out the official name of. They had a brightly colored underbelly, and they kept trying to go swimming in our pool. That's all I knew about them.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 07:17 PM
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42. Ahah! Found the name of the kind with the bright bellies.
http://www.floridabackyardsnakes.com/SouthernRingneck.html

Cute little buggers, but not the brightest. We always had to keep the lower part of our screens perfect to keep them safe 'cause they'd go into our pool and not be able to get back out again.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:35 PM
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44. That was my guess!

Either them or redbellies. Neither one is venomous though!

:hi:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 05:56 PM
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47. Nah, they were usually orangeish yellow underneath.
A lot like one species of grasshopper down there too, come to think of it. We had these weird big fat black grasshoppers that would have red marks when they were young, but as they grew the red would fade to yellow.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:29 PM
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29. Hi Sally
love your pics!

:hug: :hug:

:loveya:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:34 PM
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33. SPK!

Glad you liked the pics! How have you been, my friend? :hug:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:18 PM
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43. not so great
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 08:18 PM by Southpawkicker
been dropped like a hot potato, at least that means I'm hot, right?

:shrug:


:hug:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:36 PM
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45. Aww, sweetie

I'm sorry to hear that. :hug: :hug: :hug:


:loveya:
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:30 PM
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31. YAY!!!!!! SallyMander is back...
Those pics are cool and I am sure you had a great time.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:35 PM
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34. And just for you

here is a pic of me that you haven't seen before! ;)

This is me about to throw a big fat beetle larva at the guy taking the picture. :rofl:
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:38 PM
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35. Baby, you can throw all the big fat beetle larva at me you want...
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 03:39 PM by jasonc
:rofl:

As always, you look great, except for that AWFUL hat... I will send you a MN Twins hat if you want?

:P
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:41 PM
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36. LOL!

Thanks for the offer, but hell no! I'm a Masshole and proud of it! :D
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:45 PM
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37. I guess that is better than being a fan of...
Ohio State...

:P
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:46 PM
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38. Yeah, those people are just crazy!

:eyes:



Great, now lizziegrace is going to kick both of our asses! :scared:
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:54 PM
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39. OH OH
thats what I get for talking without thinking about it first...

Damn...

:scared:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 04:06 PM
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40. Salamanders, serpents and dragons...
all mythical creatures. Right here in the US! :)
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:36 PM
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46. LOL!

Perfect!!! :loveya:
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 06:05 PM
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48. for some reason i find baby snakes to be the creepiest thing in the world.
i don't know why. maybe it is because they are babies but they are not cute. like a possessed baby.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 09:19 PM
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50. Aww, i think they're kinda cute!

They still have that baby "my head and eyes are really big compared to my body" thing going. Not as cute as baby turtles or salamanders, but still cute!

To each his own though! :hi:
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 07:51 PM
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49. Beautiful pictures Sally!!
Edited on Wed Jun-18-08 07:56 PM by SalmonChantedEvening
The dragon and damselfly pics are just plain WOW.

Nothing major to report on aside from watching a spectacular thunderstorm this past Saturday from the porch of my sister's house. It was an awesome hour of light, wind and water.

:hi: :hug: :loveya: :pals:

edit: brain, meet fingers. fingers, this is brain.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 09:21 PM
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51. Thanks SCE!

I'm glad you liked the pics! I had a blast. :D

Nothing like summer thunderstorms, huh?? I have fond memories of watching them from my grandparents' screened-in porch - some good boomers can still make me feel like a little girl. :)

:hug:

:loveya:
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-19-08 12:32 AM
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52. I have the same camera, just love it.
Still learning how to use all the features.

Great pics.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-19-08 09:31 AM
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53. Me too, on both counts!

Love it, and still learning to use it! I'm having a blast with it so far though. I love playing with the "super macro" setting. :D

:hi:
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-19-08 09:34 AM
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54. WOW
I mean :wow:

I especially like the fox snake photo. I like the composition and the contrast of the snake against the gray vine.

:yourock: Thanks!
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-19-08 01:52 PM
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55. I'm so glad you liked the pics bertha!

I had such a good time. I took about 500 pictures in all, so a few of them had to turn out well! ;)

:hi:

:hug:
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