Tiny Little Life

Here is a ladybug that I found on my car early in the morning.

Part of the percieved cuteness of ladybugs is the illusion that the white spots on the thorax are their eyes (this also is to fool enemies). But, the actual head is much smaller as you can see here.

Back in May, some friends helped us put in some flooring. In the process of removing the old flooring, we found some 1970’s shag carpet that had never seen the light of day, nor any foot traffic. We framed it as a thank-you gift (shown here on the new floor).

It really is a […]

I haven’t taken many pictures this summer, but here’s a cricket I saw the other day.

Tonight I caught a decently large horsefly (compare it to the pen) under a drinking glass and took some good pictures of it.

Several times, the fly tried to crawl up the sides of the inverted glass, and when it got the base, fell straight down on its back. For some reason it […]

Here is another picture of an insect on a window. This time it was a moth, whose wings actually make it look like it’s wearing a turtleneck.
I actually had to scare it off to convince myself that it could fly at all.

If you wake up early, you can catch a fly while it’s still asleep. This one was on my car’s window, and I got some stunning pictures of it.

There’s really not much to say about these images. I was really excited to get up close to this fly without it being scared away, […]

I saw this odd Little Tykes/IBM toy in a secondhand store.

This must have been intended as a way to get kids used to cubicle life. I’m not sure that it ever hit the market; the store where I saw this was in a town that had a large IBM facility.