2024 Photo a Day

10.19.2024 Winter tire time. 😠

10.20.2024 Poppy is shocked that Nelly is washing her.

10.18.2024 Jingles

10.15.2024 Waxing gibbous the next night.

10.10.2024 Sleepy Lucy

01.01.2024 Pumpkin pie for New Years

01.02.2024 The cookie store had no cookies.

01.03.2024 Scary alert.

01.04.2024 A gift from a student was delivered late.

01.05.2024 Snowflake lesson for pre-K

01.06.2024 Tired after the excitement of supper.

01.07.2024 Already asleep.

01.08.2024 Sweet Dori

01.09.2024 A new wallet.

01.10.2024 Power outage yesterday: 16 awful hours in the cold. It got down to 54° before it was restored.

01.11.2024 After I left the nest of blankets Lucy and I stayed warm in yesterday.

01.12.2024 Before the storm, the turkeys were looking for shelter.

01.13.2024 The Devil Bros. want to be carried upstairs.

01.14.2024 I have seen Lucy request kisses from Nelly.

01.15.2024 DC Weekend

01.16.2024 Happy Poppy.

01.17.2024 The beginning of yesterday's storm. Driving home was very difficult.

01.18.2024 Snow roll off of roof.

01.19.2024 Winter scene.

01.20.2024 Testing the air at school.

01.21.2024 This may be a flock of pine siskins.

01.22.2024 He will be there once a month all summer!

01.23.2024 Wish summer would break out all over.

01.24.2024 My Anna with Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont in Hartford.

01.25.2024 Birthday cake, Gerry's doughnuts and Beth's bars (eaten) all suddenly in one day.

01.26.2024 R made a snowman and I promised him I would photograph it. 

01.27.2024  New Haven sunset

01.28.2024

01.29.2024 KAF coffeecake

01.30.2024 Andy's Dandy gave Lucy a huge gift cookie.

01.31.2024 Bohemian waxwing

02.01.2024 Dark-winged Fungus Gnat

02.02.2024

02.03.2024 Noon at Seymour Lake

02.04.2024 Not the happiest bedtime crew.

02.05.2024 Poppy love.

02.06.2024 Poppy likes a lot of bedtime attention.

02.07.2024 Poppy again.

02.08.2024 Willoughby outlet Mallards

02.09.2024 Haystack Mountain on far left.

02.10.2021  100 Day was Thursday

02.11.2024 Amy has already made our muffins for the week.

02.12.2024 My loons are in New Haven for the winter.

02.13.2024 Remy with an Andy Warhol print

02.14.2024 We missed the southern New England nor'easter that Anna had. Phew.

02.15.2024 Valentine's party with the littles.

01.16.2024 Valentine's weather.

02.17.2024 Yesterday's weather was so much worse than this on Valentine's Day. Nearly impassable roads in the morning.

02.18.2024 New waiters at Denny's in College Park, MD.

02.19.2024 A school door ready for the Great American Cook-off competition.

02.20.2024  💕

02.21.2024 Nelly finally gave Poppy a partial wash!

02.22.2024 Holly's beautiful poster.

02.23.2024 School vans lined up for field trip.

02.24.2024 Poppy in the tree.

02.25.2024 Ice fishing on Seymour Lake

02.26.2024 Nelly and Lucy snuggle.

02.27.2024 Lucy still likes to watch Food Network.

02.28.2024 Remember to wash your tail before bed.

02.29.2024

03.01.2024

03.02.2024 New Haven

03.03.2024 The electric company now owes me money to grade the driveway after they messed it up staging their roadwork.

03.04.2024 Moon, southern pole on top, with Odyssey crashed on the surface for the eclipse bake-off. We didn't even place. 😕

03.05.2024 The bake-off winner was deserving.

03.06.2024 My first loaf in months.

03.07.2024 Westmore eclipse poster.

03.08.2024 Amy's village replaced a street light bulb. This is 10 PM.

03.09.2024 Barton River flooded for at least the third time this past week.

03.10.2024 Maybe I will try again today.

03.11.2024  😊

03.12.2024 I have never ever prepped a craft activity before.

03.13.2024 Lucy decided to lie on the biscuit blanket, giving Poppy little room for biscuits.

03.14.2024 After Nell washed Lucy's face.

03.15.2024  Nelly does not like to be woken up when I come to bed.

03.16.2024  Betty Crocker one pot Swedish meatballs and noodles.

03.17.2024 My Warhol cat prints from Andrew.

03.18.2024 My Galileoscope came in time for the eclipse.

03.19.2024 'Tis the first day of spring. 😖

03.20.2024 The baby owl craft for K students.

03.21.2024 First full day of spring.

03.22.2024 A bit of color with all the snow and cold.

03.23.2024 Spring Day 2

03.24.2024 Day 4 of Spring (1 foot)

03.25.2024  Yesterday's baking.

03.26.2024 Air fryer chicken parm was perfect.

03.27.2024 Next time I will open the filthy car windows.

03.28.2024 Two days of negative tests. But I feel so sick and have fever.

03.29.2024 Not my photo, not my scope. It's Gerry's. I have been sick at home but my scope is almost completed.

03.30.2024 New Haven Harbor

03.31.2024  New Haven in bloom.

04.01.2024 First flowers in Orleans.

04.03.2024 I'm going back to school finally.

04.04.2024 Two native bees Jody found two days ago. I hope they survive today's snowstorm that has cancelled all schools.

04.05.2024 It is still snowing this morning.

04.06.2024 My plow guy never came till 5 PM. Snowbound all day. 😡

04.07.2024 This little native bee that Jody captured last week is actually called a Frigid Miner. That is good since there is only snow everywhere.

04.08.2024 A partial eclipse reunion: Danielle, Xavier, Andrew, Amelia, Lucy. Anna and Aaron arrive this morning.

04.09.2024 Andrew & Danielle.

04.10.2024 Time lapse to totality.

04.11.2024 Many of the thousands leaving Vermont after the eclipse.

04.12.2024 Anna & Aaron never saw the total eclipse but saw this.

04.13.2024 Xavier's iPhone eclipse photo.

04.14.2024 My iPhone total eclipse shot.

04.15.2024 Amelia & Danielle

04.16.2024 Me & Danielle

04.17.2024 Me & Xavier

04.18.2024 Camera-grump Poppy

04.19.2024 Somehow, whenever I take a shower, Lucy's nose ends up with kitty litter on it.

04.20.2024 Poppy after being thoroughly brushed.

04.21.2024 Ina's Tuscan chicken. Not a favorite.

04.22.2024 Earth Day this morning.

04.23.2024 Poppy celebrates Earth Day her way.

04.24.2024  62° and heaven. Snow today.

04.25.2024 Colt's foot two days ago.

04.26.2024 26°F this morning.

04.27.2024 Andrew's banana cream birthday pie for a friend.

04.28.2024 Weigh-in at Olney's: 20 lbs, 8.5" beard, 1" spurs

04.29.2024 Signs of spring in fields near hairdresser.

04.30.2024 Good night, Poppy. 💗

05.01.2024 I hope to see him one time this month.

05.02.2024 Gerry installed our mason bee house. 

05.03.2024 The caterpillar I have not IDed near the bee house.

05.04.2024 Clouds over Seymour.

05.05.2024 Margined Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma noveboracense)

05.06.2024 Nelly

05.07.2024 These may be fake swans. I have to go back and look.

05.08.2024 Yes, they are fake to deter geese.

05.09.2024 The pothole in front of the house had this cone in it because it was so deep. But the heavy rain floated it right out.

05.10.2024 6 AM morning nap.

05.11.2024 Marsh Marigold (cowslips) (Caltha palustris)

05.12.2024 Celebrating the end of testing at school.

05.13.2024 Amish sheep

05.14.2024 Another Subaru

05.15.2024 A sweet card on my school laptop this morning from Holly. 💖

05.16.2024 Oregano from Kelly in Evansville.

05.17.2024 Poppy explores.

05.18.2024 My dying Mother's Day snapdragon from the restaurant (that the server called a violet!) has fully recovered.

05.19.2024 Lawn daisy, taken by 6 year old on my phone.

05.20.2024 Found in bed last night. 😣

05.21.2024 My new car isn't so new now.

05.22.2024 Seymour family

05.23.2024 The apple trees are finally blooming.

05.24.2024 First photo of season: 
Splendid Palpita Moth (Palpita magniferalis)

05.25.2024 Behind the garage. Mrs. Robin liked old hyacinth.

05.26.2024 Settling in for the night.

05.27.2024 Common Hyppa - Hodges#9578 (Hyppa xylinoides)

05.28.2024 Lifer bee! Genus Sphecodes

05.29.2024  Dogwood Leaf Beetle (Calligrapha philadelphica)

05.30.2024 Common Hyppa - Hodges#9578 (Hyppa xylinoides)

05.31.2024 A tiger fly

06.01.2024 A turkey vulture with road kill.

06.02.2024 An unidentified fly

06.03.2024 Crescent butterfly

06.04.2024 I just finished the book and can't get it out of my mind.

06.05.2024 First time Nelly has used the tree.

06.06.2024 Sweet bedtime.

06.07.2024 Bedtime

06.08.2024 Hollie found this Polyphemus moth.

06.09.2024 I finally caught Poppy's normal expression, not her grumpy camera face.

06.10.2024 A new dough: double 0 flour.

06.11.2024 Mrs. Hooded Merganser insisted she walk her babies down the road so I followed until 1/4 mile later she went into the brush.

06.12.2024 Jody started catnip for Nelly and Poppy.

06.13.2024 No comment needed.

06.14.2024 Puddling swallowtails celebrate the end of school.

06.15.2024 Train goes through downtown Barton.

06.16.2024 Good night, Nelly. <3 

06.17.2024  A peony staminode.

06.18.2024 And once again . . .

06.19.2024 The remains of the historic Duquette Barn down the road.

06.20.2024 Duquette barn before and after.

06.21.2024 Be sure to wash your tail every night at bedtime.

06.22.2024 White-margined Burrower Bug (Sehirus cinctus)
eggs and nymphs

06.23.2024 Nymph of Tarnished Plant Bug

06.24.2024 Uh oh

06.25.2024 Damn deer flies.

06.26.2024 Messing with a mix and an app.

06.27.2024 This is all the damselfly would show me. 

06.28.2024 Yellow-legged Flower Fly (Syrphus rectus)

06.29.2024 Canadian Potter Wasp (Symmorphus canadensis)

06.30.2024 Crowded Flea Beetle (Ophraella conferta)

07.01.2024 Finally a happy pic of Poppy.

07.02.2024 Hobomok Skipper

 

07.03.2024 American Rose Chafer 
(Macrodactylus subspinosus)

07.04.2024 A sawfly larva (not a caterpillar) but I have not found out which one.

07.05.2024 Himmelman's and Busck's Plume Moth (Complex Geina tenuidactylus)

07.06.2024 Eastern Calligrapher (Toxomerus geminatus)

07.07.2024 An Asian Lady Beetle eating some insect.

07.08.2024 Poppy makes me laugh.

07.09.2024 Phasia aurulans parasitizes Hemiptera (true bugs).

07.10.2024 Another funny face.

07.11.2024 Finally, a normal Poppy expression.

07.12.2024 Nelly was finally available for photos.

07.13.2024 My first inkling of my flash flood.

07.14.2024 Flash flood

07.15.2024 A neighbor fixed the driveway.

07.16.2024 The furnace guy showed me how the water pressure tank was not in good shape.

07.17.2024 Things are almost back to normal (with a feeling of impending failures).

07.18.2024 An Eastern calligrapher comes in for a landing.

07.19.2024 Lucy lay down in flood mud. 😣

07.20.2024 Amy & Nate were at Niagara Falls last week.

07.21.2024 All I've got is Poppy from last night. :-)

07.22.2024 A Tricolored Bumble Bee in flight.

07.23.2024 A Great Black Digger Wasp in flight.

07.24.2024 Dogwood Leaf Beetle (Calligrapha philadelphica)

07.25.2024  Rhododendron Leafhopper (Graphocephala fennahi)

07.26.2024 

Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil

 (Polydrusus formosus)

07.27.2024 Jagged Ambush Bug wearing tiny red mite and with Scavenging Black Fly

07.28.2024 Brown-hooded Owlet (Cucullia convexipennis)

07.29.2024 The Dogwood spittlebugs are still about.

07.30.2024 Cutest baby plant bug.

07.31.2024 A dancing fly: Hybos reversus

08.01.2024 A tiger fly (Coenosia) eating perhaps a Toxomerus fly.

08.02.2024 A Case-bearing Leaf Beetle (Subfamily Cryptocephalinae): only the 2nd find in my life! <3 

08.03.2024 A robber fly eating a flower fly. 

08.04.2024 The robber fly rested after it finished the fly.

08.05.2024 Bad shot, but the only one I got.

08.06.2024 Three bad shots.

08.07.2024 A jewelweed cleistogamous flower.

08.08.2024 Amy's neighbor loves our catnip.

08.09.2024 A neighbor excavated ditches to hopefully prevent a 4th flash flood this weekend.

08.10.2024 When it's raining again and the stress overwhelms you: bake.

08.11.2024 My first wasp this year at home.

08.12.2024 Probably an alder spittlebug. Lifer.

08.13.2024 An upside down head on shot of Eutreta noveboracensis, a fruit fly with red eyes.  

08.14.2024 Apple Clips app.

08.15.2024 A lacewing.

08.16.2024 Amy and I went to Nate's gig downtown and for ice cream at the new shop!

08.17.2024 Aaron's new trademark. 💖

08.18.2024 A six-spotted orb weaver and prey.

08.19.2024 Poppy is not grumpy in life as she is for the camera.

08.20.2024 It was such a joy to come back from the first day of school to my girl. 💗

08.21.2024 Always take a bath before bed.

08.22.2024 Spotted Tussock Moth (Lophocampa maculata)

08.23.2024 The DNC was way too late for Poppy.

08.24.2024 I had hidden 2 pizza crusts from lunch for Lucy in my bag. But she knew.

08.25.2024 Spider Sunday: Theridion albidum

08.26.2024 Bean varieties that Jody grew this summer.

08.27.2024 Another reason for my love of jewelweed.

08.28.2024 Nelly hates being awakened.

08.29.2024 American mountain ash. I think. In Morgan.

08.30.2024 Young student photo of potter wasp in bee house.

08.31.2024 A tiny American toad at Crystal Lake.

09.01.2024 Mallards at Crystal Lake

09.02.2024 Director and I learned how to use Google to ID this as a mini-umbrella plant. I want one.

09.03.2024 Amanita mushroom taken by student.

08.04.2024 The kids planted Holly's mums at school.

09.05.2024 Plenty of healthy lichen at Crystal Lake.

09.06.2024 White pollen of jewelweed was deposited on bee's head.

09.07.2024 Incoming.

09.08.2024 Poppy was very cuddly last night.

09.09.2024 We never woke Nelly so she wasn't grumpy.

09.10.2024 Poppy gives me the side-eye.

09.11.2024 Before & after: Pitted Mason Wasp nest.

09.12.2024 A gift from an 8 yr old. 💗

09.13.2024 Beans!

09.14.2024 A silken fungus beetle from school with wonderful antennae.

09.15.2024 The only good thing to say is that it includes flu testing.

09.16.2024 Lucy still enjoys Food Network at bedtime.

09.17.2024 Poppy was very happy until I aimed phone at her.

09.18.2024 Fuck

09.19.2024 I caught a happy face!

09.20.2024 Cats should be a mandatory Covid treatment.

09.21.2024 Nelly came to wash Lucy's feet.

09.22.2024 I managed to irritate Poppy but she forgave me.

09.23.2024 I finally got the last mat of fur off Poppy and she was pissed.

09.24.2024 It was a happy night. 👵

09.25.2024 A student showed us his tarantula's discarded skin.

09.26.2024 Life cycle of the pitted mason wasp.

09.27.2024 A very new, disorienting site in the woods.

09.28.2024 Our lima bean plants are doing well.

09.29.2024. Lucy all dressed up in her new harness.

09.30.2024 This is Fender.

10.01.2024 Figgy

10.02.2024 Lucy has happily adjusted to being leashed.

10.03.2024 Getting acquainted.

10.04.2024 Yes, we did the avocado thing and Faith made guacamole.

10.05.2024 Northern Paper Wasp

10.06.2024 these little kids have these life cycle diagrams down cold.

10.07.2024 We are still the same.

10.08.2024 Steve shared his recipe with me. 🤯

10.09.2024 We are past peak.

10.11.2024 Upside down Dori

10.12.2024 Happy Lucy

10.13.2024 WAXING GIBBOUS

10.16.2024 I hope the avocado seed is not sick.

10.17.2024 Back together again.