Wolf Spider Appreciation Post

I’m back! I didn’t intend to start back posting with photos of spiders, but as it happens, that was the answer to my last post. 😅

Spiders are interesting creatures. I love that they eat a lot of unwanted bugs, so I don’t kill them. I do shoot them a lot – with my camera.  😂 Here is the answer to the last Mystery Photo Friday – along with other spiders I’ve met since then. If spiders aren’t your thing… or you really don’t want to see spiders with babies, spiders having lunch, or spiders having dinner… then I recommend that you don’t scroll down and that you wait for my next post. 😅 I’ll post something prettier next time. 😂 Hope to see you when I post something that doesn’t have eight legs. ❤

Mystery Photo Friday Answer – Spider with babies!

 

A loooooot of babies. 😳

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Spider having dinner. 😳

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Spider having lunch. 😳

I admit I was a bit startled to find this one. I had my hand on the tire and was rolling it (it’s not on a vehicle) and this spider with its lunch was hiding inside the tire. It came out and almost ended up on my hand. I jumped back and ran to grab my camera. I think it’s eating a pinching beetle? Not really sure. But the spider and the beetle were huge.

See you next time. 🙂

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Mushroom Mania 2 (+ 3 / 5 / 2021 Mystery Photo Friday answer)

Who knew that mushrooms could be so diverse?  😀

This is the Mystery Photo from last Friday.  😀

This is the same one, a different angle.  🙂

I found this one after Hurricane Laura came through.

It was HUGE. 🙂

Also found this one after Laura.

Looks like someone took a bite out of this one. 😂

This was a really strange one.

This was the biggest I’d seen.

Seriously. To give you an idea. My hands are small too.

These were really small but they grew clusters.

If you’d like to see more mushrooms, I posted another Mushroom Mania years ago. I love walking around in the woods to see how many unusual ones I can find. Hope you enjoyed this installment of Mushroom Mania! 🙂

Another Day At Mamaw’s Photoshoot – (answer to Mystery Photo Friday)

The answer to the Mystery Photo Friday from 01/01/21 was… a spider! 😀 This was only one of several photos I took that day.

Because of covid, only one person could accompany Mamaw into the heart doctor’s office. So I stayed outside in the truck and finished a book and looked at the scenery. I saw this:

And saw the erosion. Once they were back out at the truck, I got out, stretched my legs:

And you can really see the erosion in this photo. The way the roots grow was really neat to see.

Once back at Mamaw’s house, I saw the spider and also, these flowers! 🙂

Before we left, I spotted this little guy just hanging out on the screen door.

He was so cute, I had to get a bunch of shots of him! 🤩

He was so tiny! A little baby! ❤

This is to give an idea of how tiny he was. He jumped onto my hand. ❤

Hope you enjoyed the photos, and I’ll see you around. 🙂

Mystery Photo Friday 1 / 1 / 2021

It’s Mystery Photo Friday! What do you think this is? 🙂

My Chicks Are All Grown Up And Laid their First Egg! – (Mystery Photo Friday)

The answer to Mystery Photo Friday is – egg! And it’s not just any egg…

It’s the first egg my new chicks laid! They are five months old now (wow I have a lot of catching up to do over on this blog).

(There WAS straw in the nest, but they had fun knocking it all out. XD) I heard the “I’m about to lay an egg” song and the “I just laid the egg and I’m happy about it” song, and it came from this beautiful girl:

Her name is Siren. 🙂 If you are able to see Facebook, I made this post with a video of Siren’s pre-laying song and just-laid-an-egg song: https://www.facebook.com/penelope.payne.7587/posts/757061501902099

I should be back to posting once a week starting next Monday. 😀 I have a post ready to go, I just have to add photos. Hope to see you around! 😀

Mystery Photo Friday – 12 / 28 / 2020

Hello and welcome to the first Mystery Photo Friday on my blog! I like getting up close in a lot of my photos, and sometimes it’s hard to tell what they are. So this series of posts is so you guys can guess what the photos are of!  I’ve been doing this on my Facebook, but I want to do it here too. Here is your first one:

I’ll post the answer Wednesday! 😀 I plan to get back into blogging at the beginning of the year, so hope to see you around! 🙂

El Camino – The Way (storm damage photos)

We had some bad storms come through Easter Sunday. We were out of electricity from Sunday night through Thursday night.

One of the neighbor’s tree – or what’s left of it.

We’re all safe. Our house, the henhouse, my cat’s run, everything is okay.  And everyone is okay.

Another of our neighbor’s trees – or what’s left of it.

I was outside bringing my plants inside right before the storm. I was on my way inside when I heard a noise that sounded like a freight train. I thought it was a tornado coming, so we headed inside. And then we lost power.

It went over and we could hear the snapping and a few loud crashes. These trees no longer have tops – and I haven’t found them yet. They are just gone. I guess they were blown away.

We heard one crash in which there was a definite sound of metal. Dad thought a tree fell on his workshop, but the shop was fine. Then I knew what happened.

I’ve been praying for the past year or so that the dead tree near my grandpa’s El Camino wouldn’t fall and crush it before we could try to have the dead tree taken care of. We hoped to restore it.

And then this storm happened. God answered my prayer – I prayed specifically, and He answered! He is good.

How did He answer, you wonder? The car indeed looks crushed. Well… the car IS crushed. Do you see the tree in the center of this photo? The one standing? The one with the bark damaged? THAT is the dead tree. It’s still standing.

The tree that crushed the car was over 100 years old – and very much alive. It’s an oak too. I thought those trees were strong, but it was uprooted.

My heart is still as crushed as the car is, but I’m grateful that it was the only damage. It could have been so much worse! We lost several other trees – snapped or uprooted – but they didn’t smash anything.

“Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Matthew 7:14)

The car was named “The Way” (el camino in Spanish means “the way” or “the path”) but there is only one true Way – and that is Jesus. The only Way. He leads to life. And He protected us from the storm. It was just a car, even though I was attached to it. It won’t make it through the fire – I can’t take it with me. And it isn’t The Way.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)

I’m determined to keep my eyes on the True Way. The One who protected us during the storms. He is good! ❤