Good morning,
Coffee Monday
Good morning,
Texas Spiny lizard
Our gray cat is a hunter. He was homeless until we rescued him when he was about four months old. He still has the hunting instinct. While we were working in the yard last week, my husband noticed the cat chasing a lizard. It ran up a tree stump and we stepped into rescue it.
The Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) is common in our area. They eat insects and are fun to watch. This fellow was very calm when we approached him and let my husband move him to another, safer spot to continue his life free of meddlesome kitties.
Texas Spiny lizard.
Texas Spiny Lizard – closer
Rescued (He is adorable)
On his way to a safer location
Coffee Monday
Yawn. Good morning.
Ladybug, Lady beetle or ladybird beetles. Whatever the name, they are welcome in my garden.
I scattered dill seed from last years crop all over the back of the garden area. We had a very mild winter and the dill came up every where. I had hoped for a good crop to attract butterflies. One insect I had not considered I might attract were ladybugs. I went to check the garden and noticed several lady bugs on my dill. Then I noticed a large number of aphids. I was thrilled to see the ladybugs happily working their way trough the pests.
Lady bug on dill flowers
Ladybug on dill stem
Melyna
Butterflies and passion vines.
Last summer I planted passion vines on a trellis behind my raised bed garden. It was an attempt to provide shade from the hot afternoon sun. They did well, but froze back over the winter. This spring they sent out runners and started climbing again, but this year we have an abundance of Gulf Frittilary Butterflies that are seeking out these vines, and their larva apparently love eating it. I am torn between removing them from the vine by hand to save the plants or allowing them to happily eat to their heart’s content and hope the vines recover afterwards. I have settled on doing a little bit of both. If I can keep the vines alive, my hope is that in a few years there will be enough vines to host the butterflies and enjoy the beautiful flowers.
Below are several caterpillars that I picked off the vines with the leaves and flowers they were eating.
Close up of a very hungry caterpillar.
Gulf Fritillary pupa
Gulf Frittillary butterfly on lantana
Melyna
Dragon Thursday
Good morning,
I am currently caffeine free for a cleanse I am doing. So, of course when I was searching for dragons, I kept finding coffee and dragons. Perfect. 🙂
and lastly this beautiful digital art from Deviantart artist M-Amey. So cool!
Dragon Thursday
I found these cute baby dragons on Pinterest. The artist is DragonCid on DeviantArt.
Be sure to check out DragonCid’s page. She also does sculpture and has some wonderful pieces.
We have twelve hens that we bought as day old chicks. One of them is always giving off a fierce look . I imagine them thinking they are channeling their inner dragon. 😉
What are you looking at?
Red Sex Link chicks 6 days old.
Here is one of her sculptures, a red shoulder dragon
Melyna
Coffee Monday
Good morning!
Leap frogging through cyber space
I signed into my Pinterest account today and found many interesting pins that had been chosen just for me. 😉 Some of the items that pop up I find amusing, and wonder how they were chosen for me, but today one in particular caught my eye. It is called The Readers Path, a digital art piece by artist Jeremiah Morelli. I was immediately drawn to it and wanted to find out more.
His website is MorJer’s Art
Per his website, Mr. Morelli started digital painting in November 2007. His work is whimsical and transports you into a fantasy world.
Some of his prints are available for purchase on his Deviantart page Jerry8448
(The Readers Path is available)
Another of my favorites has a dragon (of course)
The Dragon and the Racoon
Be sure to check out his gallery here .
He also offer tutorials on how he creates his digital art, and you can follow him on MorJer’s Art facebook page.
enjoy,
Melyna
Dragon Thursday
My friends know I love dragons and recently they sent me a link to this dragon.(Actually, I have been sent this link several times. These are amazing) 🙂
This wonderful little dragon can be found on a website called http://www.cuartosdolls.com
They are called Darkhorn.
These polyurethane dragons are made with ball joints that allow them to be arranged in various positions. They come with several options including, wings or no wings, head with eyes open or closed and a range of colors in metallic or matt finish. These are fascinating. Be sure to take a look .
Below: Blue winged dragon
Click photo to go to the color palette page.
Melyna
Coffee and Captured Moments 