Category: Photography

Half the joy in life is
in little things taken on the run.

Let us run if we must- even the sands do that-
but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open
that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

– Victor Cherbuliez

Today for your viewing pleasure we have the Grapevine Beetle.

Nearly an inch long, it flies in leisurely, swinging arches, and is easily confused with the three hummingbirds that like to buzz right over our heads like gleefully drunken frat boys.

Schrothtastic does not like bug pictures, and for that I apologize.

I, however, think this guy’s hangdog expression is really cute. I regret I had no grapes to feed him. I did release him in the wineberries, though; I hope they act as a fair substitute.

Please send me your last pair of shoes,
worn out with dancing
as you mentioned in your letter,
so that I might have something
to press against my heart.

-Goethe

I know mermaids don’t wear slippers;

those are the words that float in my mind

when I see these sorts of shells.

And then, unbidden, Lewis Carroll’s Lobster Quadrille;

“will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?”

Happiness is as a butterfly,
which, when pursued,
is always beyond our grasp,
but which,
if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have been trying to get decent butterfly pictures all summer. I am pretty happy with these.

I demand that you note the crazy long tongue and fuzzy striped zebra body! These were not details that I was expecting.

I am always blown away by the details.

May a little happiness find you today.