June 3

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Small bug on bathmat.  I couldn't see even this much detail,looking at the bug with my bare eyes.

Cropped very close.  So pleased with my little camera, for capturing enough info that I can crop down and down and get this sort of image -- those are coarse terry-cloth loops, but they are terry-cloth loops.  Made this (apparently) big by cropping.

Isn't it fun to see all this detail?  Love my "slow magnifying glass".........



There are enough "fairy doors" in commercial locations in Ann Arbor to encourage people to make their own.  I think the black/yellow/red/purple shape behind Wonder Woman purports to be a door.  She has a princess(?) chair, two lawn chairs, and, of course, some flamingos......

If I saw these teeny "lawn flamingos" for sale, I would buy some.

I can't remember why I was in West Park the evening of June 3...........

This is a nice, clear, very bad pic of ducks.  We are looking at Mama's head from the back.  The left side of her face is partially visible.  We can almost make out where they eye would be, as a notch in the outline of her head, near the top of her head, at left.  Her bill is against her breast, I think.

Then there are the two babies in one lump, upper left.  The baby who is closer to Mom has its head completely backwards.  We're looking at the back of its head, and can see its right cheek,fluffy and yellow, right of the dark stripe that goes down the back of its head.  Its bill is resting on its back

The other baby is parallel to the width of the image.  Its head is turned towards its back, too, but not all the way around.  The dark stripe in the yellow (below the not-quite-so-dark patch on its head) contains its eye, and its bill is hidden behind its sibling.

These are the only ducklings in the pond.  I fear some disaster befell the family with 10 babies that I took pics of several weeks earlier.  The first time I saw this family with just two babies, the babies were too young to have been part of that first family.

Dogs?  Racoons?  I don't know.  Last year this little pond raised more than a dozen baby ducks to the age of full flight.  This year, I'm still hoping for two.......



A few of the pond's tadpoles.............

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