Lunch hour at work vs lunch hour when working from home.
Prairie Dog
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Prairie Dog performing The Tempest
“Thy food shall be
The fresh-brook muscles, wither’d roots and husks
Wherein the acorn cradled.”
Prairie Dog performing Henry IV, part 2
“Let me no more from this obedience rise,
Which my most inward true and duteous spirit
Teacheth, this prostrate and exterior bending.”
Prairie Dog performing Julius Caesar
“Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.”
Dragonfly
This dragonfly suggests that, if you are displeased with the state of the world, you should burn it all down and start over. However, dragonflies are positioned to benefit greatly from global warming, so this dragonfly may not be a neutral party.
Why are you considering advice from a dragonfly anyway? They’re brains are extremely small.
Anyway, burying things deep into the earth or drowning them in the ocean is a more responsible use of carbon.
UV Flower
Since ultraviolet light doesn’t map to visual colours, sometimes I play with band separation to figure out what look I want. In general, the camera picks up UV light as red, orange, purple, and magenta, with two primary bands falling either into orange/purple or red/magenta. I can then use colour shifting to move them around a bit, and get this sort of blue. I think it looks nice.
UV Monarch
I have, thus far, been surprised to find that most butterflies look exactly the same in ultraviolet.
Dandelion UV
Yep. This is what dandelions look like in ultraviolet.
A lot of yellow flowers have similar patterning. It helps the bees know where to go.
(Bees aren’t that bright.)
Prairie Dog performing King John
Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul;
Holding the eternal spirit* against her will,
In the vile prison of afflicted breath.
* Possibly taking liberties with the depiction of spirits
Bactrian Camel
Bactrian camel listening to Owl City’s “Fireflies,” realizing that ten million fireflies would weigh 440 pounds would generate 6000 lumens of light.
As 6000LM flashlights are $40 on Amazon and weigh a lot less, this camel thinks that Adam Young needs an economics lesson.
Bactrian Camel
Pumpkin suspects the camel is interested in more than just kissing.
Bactrian Camel
Pumpkin has some suspicions about the future.
Bactrian Camel
People believe that camel humps are full of water. This is a lie.
It’s actually helium.
Red Panda
They’re a bit easier to see in the fall.
Bottle
When it’s time to invest in a water softener.
Stick Insect
Some lenses make people look weird.
Some lenses work really well for bugs.
Sometimes these are the same lenses.
Stick insect
It’s like very slow reverse juggling.
Cab2
OK. One more. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that these two should not be allowed to work the field.
Cab
Earlier this year, the Red River Zoo put a combine cab in their ag barn. I didn’t get it at first, but *wow* was it popular. Later in the summer, I set up a little GoPro to take photos of the kids playing in it. I won’t bore you with the hundred or so photos I got of them, but I quite like this one.
Duck
Which side of a duck has the most feathers?
The outside.
Why did the duck fly south for the winter?
Because it was too far to walk.
A man in a movie theater notices what looks like a duck sitting next to him. “Are you a duck?” asked the man, surprised. “Yes.” “What are you doing at the movies?” The duck replied, “Well, I liked the book.”
A duck waddles into a card shop, he waddles his way to the front desk asking the clerk, Do you got any tape? The clerk replies, No. So the duck waddles away. The very next day at the same time the same duck waddles into the Card Shop he waddles right up to that same clerk asking him, Do you have any tape? The clerk looking irritated replying in a stern voice,No! We are a card shop we sell cards not tape! And if you ask me again I will nail your bill to the counter! So the duck just waddles away. At the same time the next day the Duck is waddling into that same card shop He waddles right up to that same clerk asking him, do you have any nails? The clerk says,no. Then the duck replied good!! So do you have any tape?
What did the duck do after I told her all these jokes?
I thought she’d quack up, but instead she just barely tolerated my presence as I took this photo.