published Saturday, September 4th, 2010 at 9:26 am by Carol
No, it’s not winter in Clearwater yet … just the Labor Day weekend. But there’s always a Winter at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and she’s going to be a star in her own movie which is being filmed now.
I was there earlier this year with Crystal and her family. That little dolphin who should have died has made an amazing impact on many people’s lives. So much so that a major movie is being made about her.
Here’s a couple of snaps I got the day we went.
Winter is saying, "Hi!"
Winter can jump even without her tail!
If you want Winter on a webcam or just see her daily routine, visit Winter’s Web Cam page. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
published Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 3:26 pm by Carol
I’m not sure who’s trained in this video. It’s a young ibis tapping on Crystal’s window. She throws bread out of it several times a day to feed the flock of ibises that show up daily.
She has named this one “Knocky-pants“. Turn up your speakers and you can hear it.
So is the ibis trained to tap on the window for food… or is Crystal trained to throw bread when her window is tapped?
published Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 2:31 pm by Carol
Lucky me…. not only do I keep finding black widow spiders, but now I found a brown widow. And writing about spiders really, really isn’t that interesting to me.
But in the spirit of being sure everyone knows what these things look like, here’s the brown dude(ette) munching in a wasp.
This guy looked so related to black widows that I killed it just in case.
It took me quite a bit of internet searching before I figured this out. It’s quite an attractive spider but it looked so much like the black widows except for the color that I killed it right after taking the picture. I didn’t want to have to go looking for it later.
published Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 11:31 am by Carol
Twiggy was posing for me the other day on the bench in my bedroom. It was like she wanted her portrait made because she was still there after I went back into the family room to get my camera.
No reason to put this here other than she’s just so darn cute!
Twiggy requested a little photoshopping on her portrait.
published Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at 9:25 am by Carol
I went outside yesterday to throw some stuff in my garbage can and noticed a sparkly spider web attached to it. All my mental alarms went off because I know that web when I see it. Another dang-blasted black widow wanted to take over the area.
Black widow egg sacs
If I hadn’t seen it, I easily could have grabbed the handle of the can and had myself a close encounter of the third kind with mommy spider. I never did see the spider but then, I didn’t go looking too closely for it – ugh. Soaked the whole area down with bug spray!
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