Supposed to be another beauty here today... high in the 50's, lots of sunshine. Presently its 29 and cloudy. Sunrise in a few moments promises to be majestic with the cloud cover.
Permalink Reply by GTO on November 11, 2009 at 9:01am
many Veteran's Day - Remembrance Day ceremonies have taken place and will take place today honouring the many men and women who gave up their lives defending the freedoms which we all enjoy today....
observe the minute of silence today at 11:11 in your own space and give thanks...in the city here everything will stop to observe this special moment and across the country the same is in the plans to be legislated
Happy Veterans' Day to all who have served our country as well as those who are currently doing service.
Great views, Keith. It looks like a beautiful day.
Our string of nice weather seems to have ended for a few days, probably thanks to Ida as rain is in the forecast through Saturday, a change from yesterday's sunnier predictions. Good thing I took care of more garden cleanup chores yesterday.
These shots are from Monday when I had a squirrel visitor on the deck in the morning and a mantis visitor on the side rail on the garden side of the house in the late afternoon. I don't think this is the same mantis that I had been seeing. It seemed smaller and its abdomen was definitely not as full. The other possibility is that it is the same mantis and that there is a recently deposited egg mass out there somewhere. I did a futile search for one and hope that if there is one that it didn't get lost in recent garden cleanup efforts.
This picture shows that the mantis wasn't intimidated by my presence as it walked over my left hand as I held the camera in my right.
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