My Best Daily Shots

Thanks for stopping by to view my daily photo! I will post a new photo each day to this gallery. Typically, I will post early morning, and the photo will have been taken the day before. Sometimes the photo may be from sometime earlier in the week, but all the pictures posted will be relatively new. I hope you see something that makes you smile. Feel free to leave professionally appropriate comments. Here's a link to the SmugMug Daily Community.

06/19/10 - Passion Flower and Cucumber Beetle (mcdonegal1 said Alien Space Invasion and I just love that title!)<br />
I was delighted a few days ago to find a very small passion flower vine growing on the dirt road leading up to the swamp. This has to be THE most alien like flower ever, and I just love it. I took a few shots that day, but they just didn't pop. Then yesterday I finally refound the vine and saw the flower and then saw the bugs eating it:-( However, I thought it made the picture more interesting, and I didn't take anything better yesterday, so I'm posting it. Notice lower right that there is at least one more flower soon to open:-) <br />
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Cropped to 8X10 just to offcenter the fower and get ride of some extra green real estate on the left. Also used Picasa and the Lucky adjustment to improve the contrast and the richness of the colors a bit. <br />
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Toy Story 3 was great. We laughed, got scared, and at least I cried. We saw it in Real D 3-D, and let me tell you, if you haven't taken in one of the new 3-D shows you're missing out on a cool experience. Because we were in a 3-D movie, we got all the 3-D trailers, and there are a lot more 3-D movies coming up between now and Christmas including the next one in the Narnia series. It was my husband's birthday yesterday, and the boys really enjoyed taking their dad to the theater:<br />
<br /> <a href="http://fotomom.smugmug.com/Nature/June-2010/12400102_x8pU2#905860155_p56bX">http://fotomom.smugmug.com/Nature/June-2010/12400102_x8pU2#905860155_p56bX</a><br />
And, yes, I made the boys' shirts:-)<br />
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No luck on a better red-spotted purple butterfly picture yesterday although I did chase one around like a crazy person for a few minutes:-) <br />
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Thanks for your comments on the fritillary shot I posted yesterday...<br />
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HAGD,<br />
Maryann<br />
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Late note: Fixed ID on beetle from potato to cucumber thanks to PaPa for the identify.

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06/19/10 - Passion Flower and Cucumber Beetle (mcdonegal1 said Alien Space Invasion and I just love that title!)
I was delighted a few days ago to find a very small passion flower vine growing on the dirt road leading up to the swamp. This has to be THE most alien like flower ever, and I just love it. I took a few shots that day, but they just didn't pop. Then yesterday I finally refound the vine and saw the flower and then saw the bugs eating it:-( However, I thought it made the picture more interesting, and I didn't take anything better yesterday, so I'm posting it. Notice lower right that there is at least one more flower soon to open:-)

Cropped to 8X10 just to offcenter the fower and get ride of some extra green real estate on the left. Also used Picasa and the Lucky adjustment to improve the contrast and the richness of the colors a bit.

Toy Story 3 was great. We laughed, got scared, and at least I cried. We saw it in Real D 3-D, and let me tell you, if you haven't taken in one of the new 3-D shows you're missing out on a cool experience. Because we were in a 3-D movie, we got all the 3-D trailers, and there are a lot more 3-D movies coming up between now and Christmas including the next one in the Narnia series. It was my husband's birthday yesterday, and the boys really enjoyed taking their dad to the theater:

http://fotomom.smugmug.com/Nature/June-2010/12400102_x8pU2#905860155_p56bX
And, yes, I made the boys' shirts:-)

No luck on a better red-spotted purple butterfly picture yesterday although I did chase one around like a crazy person for a few minutes:-)

Thanks for your comments on the fritillary shot I posted yesterday...

HAGD,
Maryann

Late note: Fixed ID on beetle from potato to cucumber thanks to PaPa for the identify.

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Hershy
on June 22, 2010
wow what a find! great shot!!
Andrea Kaus (ChaosGraphics)
on June 19, 2010
What a cool shot -- it's a whole world down there in the micro regions of the swamp.
Gene Hyder
on June 19, 2010
Interesting shot.
Chika
on June 19, 2010
Wow, busy shot! I've never seen many bugs are on a flower. Great and interesting shot.
Donna McCommon
on June 19, 2010
Beautiful and love the little creatures.
Deborah Glessner
on June 19, 2010
Sad flower happy bugs -- these almost look like lightning bugs.
Cool capture.
Pearls
on June 19, 2010
Wonderful find and capture Maryann, will have to plan for the 3D Narnia. Wonderful shot of the boys too, looks like everyone was having a great time.
Kerry Milkie Photography
on June 19, 2010
OK - great shot but eewww
Howard's Photography
on June 19, 2010
Wild looking flower, cool shot!
Pixel Footprints
on June 19, 2010
wow...what a cool flower and so many bugs..nice shot and comp

My Best Daily Shots

Hershy

Andrea Kaus (ChaosGraphics)

Gene Hyder

Chika

Donna McCommon

Deborah Glessner

Pearls

Kerry Milkie Photography

Howard's Photography

Pixel Footprints