On Photographs

I am very excited, because today I submitted my very first photo to bugguide.net ( http://bugguide.net/node/view/908314 ) Link!  Although I enjoy taking insect photos, I don't normally get ones that are in focus enough or show enough of the characters to bother uploading. In going though some old photos though, I found multiple pictures of an individual, and it actually showed a lot of the parts I know as beetle characters. I love that website, and I am excited to contribute a little to it. Hopefully I will be able to contribute more, and maybe help identify things in the future.

On a related note, I'm super excited that I figured out how to crop photos without using paint. It was a good morning for learning!

I will end with a couple photos that I liked, but don't consider valuable to upload onto bugguide.

A Syrphid fly of some sort, getting nectar from a yellow coneflower. Not many characters are visible, but it's a good photo to exhibit how the family looks a lot like bees!

You can see a couple flies getting nectar in this photo. I'm still on the fence about cropping and submitting this one. 

Japanese beetles are so pretty. They are identifiable in this photo, but bugguide already has quite a few photos of these. 

You can see, if you squint, a really pretty blue/green damselfly in this photo. There aren't many characters visible though.

Here, I'll zoom in for you. 

((All photos copyright Caitlin Race 2013))

Culinary Abominations

On occasion, I will find myself hungry, but without any leftovers or any clear idea of what to cook. I look in my fridge and I have one or two random food items, and my brain decides it is a good idea to just put them all together and eat it. This is what I refer to in a fond and somewhat horrified manner as 'culinary abominations.'  Today was one of those days.

Looking around my fridge and kitchen, I found I had bread, tortillas, a bit of cooked rice, peanut butter, condiments, cheddar biscuit mix, a bit of cheese, and eggs. Now, I'd already had eggs in a basket today (with cheese) so I didn't really want it again. My brain said, I should eat the rice, and that's when we caught the train to crazy town.

My Dinner:

1 cup of cooked rice, 1 tablepoon of miracle whip, 1 tsp brown mustard, some Fiesta! seasoning, some garlic powder all mixed together like an egg salad gone wrong.  This was put into a tortilla spread with crunchy peanut butter, and eaten cold.

It was.... surprisingly edible, but sometimes I wonder what in the world I am thinking when I make dinner.

Have a nice dinner everyone!