I've been slacking on the garden photos since the last ones i posted the plants were tiny. Well we've gotten about 15 zucchinis from it, and both of those plants have died, the tomatos are still trucking and the pepper plant (1 of them) is thriving.
Wish I would have gotten some photos of it all in it's glory, since now it looks a bit sad.
Had to post some pictures of my mutant golden cherry tomato though with it's Siamese twin growing out of it.
I thought it looked pretty good on the deck in the morning sun and took advantage of the macro on my little point and shoot. With some skill you can make almost any camera take really good photos (although i wish i had the big camera to knock the glare off the tomato and really make the color pop). Love how the tomato has a sparkle type finish to it that is glittering in the sun. Not as easy to see in these photos but you can see it in the big ones.
These are some giant prehistoric type bugs we have down here. I mean we have tons of crazy bugs that aren't in michigan, but these take the cake. Wish I could have gotten something in the photo for scale, but it was seriously watching me, like it would stand on the deck and when it saw me watching it, it slowly backed up. They are around 3" long, which for a bug, is huge, and there are tons of them. Then they turn white and die and you can see them all around outside. Weird. 
3 comments:
That bug is a cicada - we have those in Michigan! They are just really shy. They are completely harmless, so you shouldn't be afraid of them. That is cool that you saw one because you usually just hear them at night. They shed their skins like a snake, so the white things you see are probably just their skins they are leaving behind.
Wow, I just totally out-nerded you.
i've seen cicadas before, but these are seriously giant. And they are everywhere, that stand on the balcony and watch us, creepy style.
It could be one of the 17 year cicadas that grow underground for 17 years and then emerge. They are big!
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