we walked awhile, just talking, and observing, and eventually made our way to this lake, where the closest you could get was shelters. On one of the windows I saw this spider, Nice and big webweaving spider.
There was a bank on the far side, and a few geese were sitting there. In the shelters they have some viewing telescopes. I used one of these to look at one of the geese, then put my camera up to it, and ta-da, we have a picture. It tuned out a lot better then it would've had I tried zoom with my camera instead.
This is a picture of a clearing we came across, when we were coming back. We apparently missed it on the way there. It was starting to getting cloudier outside.
A day I had been long waiting for arrived! The day the first mantis' hatched. This is one mantid on my finger, this was one of seven I kept. Sadly I'm guessing arounf 3 won't make it to their first molt. This is just from my experience with them in general. I don't even know if one will survive until adulthood. It's not an easy task to raise them all the way to adulthood.
This is a rainbow. God's sign that never again will the earth be flooded, like in the great flood.
