A view of a tiger’s eye (and other eye, and nose and whiskers) at the zoo.
A toy tiger’s eye.
A piece of tiger’s eye.
I don’t know about you, but I totally have Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” running through my head now. And if you don’t have it going through your head having read that, I can only assume that you don’t know the song. Or that you are somehow not susceptible to catching earworms.
The kids and I got good use of our zoo membership in the last few weeks before the zoo closed for the colder months. Here are some of the views of birds’ eyes that I captured with my phone.
Victoria crowned pigeon.
A curious adolescent emu.
A bright-feathered budgie.
This was a bumper year for caterpillars, and hardly a tree could be seen whose leaves hadn’t been transformed into lacy mesh. (During the summer, when the caterpillar population was highest, word was that you could hear the sound of the munching up in the trees.) This years selection of fallen leaves, therefore, shows more than a hole or two. While perhaps not conventionally picture-perfect, these leaves are photogenic in their own offbeat way.
Truth be told, none of the balls in these photos are likely to be rolling any time soon. But they did provide me with an excuse to take the ball and run. Or take the ball theme and run. Because if there’s one thing I love to do, it’s run with a theme. I am far more likely to run with a theme than to run with a ball. I’m much less likely to get winded.
Brick ball in Massachusetts.
Stone (or perhaps cement) ball in Barcelona.
Metal ball in Dublin.
This week’s friday foto finder theme is “perch .” I had a few candidates (mostly other birds) picked out last night, but this guy popped up as a winner due to his appearance in a conversation I had during my lab meeting. Okay, not this guy. But a kookaburra. Or at least a song about a kookaburra.
I didn’t hear about it when it happened, but apparently Men at Work was sued a few years ago for copyright infringement for their song Down Under. Not the whole song, but a few notes of the song. There’s a flute solo that plays a few notes from the song “Kookaburra,” the Australian popular folk song. It was actually written in 1932, and currently the rights are owned by a now unpopular record company. Men at Work lost the lawsuit, and now must pay a share of their royalties for the song to the record company.
This kookaburra sits in cage in a zoo, and does not collect any royalties from either song.
To see what other photos are perched for this week’s friday foto finder, and/or to share your own, head down under to the fff blog.
These are some more photos of the same star magnolia tree I posted yesterday, that I also took last spring.
These were taken a couple of days later, along with a number of other raindrop photos that I posted last year. I saved these to post another day, but somehow hadn’t gotten around to posting them yet.
Looking back at these photos, I’m realizing that I haven’t been taking nearly as many photos over the last few months. I miss it.
I should really fix myself back up with my macro lens and get back outside.
Or inside. I should really just get back to using my camera.
A few more of these photos are included in the slideshow below if you (like me) can’t get enough views of raindrops.
This photo of a star magnolia was one I took a year ago today. Spring has been much slower to spring this year, and this same tree is barely budding right now. I’m not fond of pink, but I have enjoyed the blooms on this tree.
Here are a handful of photos I picked out that I’ve taken over the past 5 years.
March of 2010.
June, 2012.
Also June, 2012.
October, 2010.
From about a month ago, when most of the ground was still covered in ice and snow. These spikes of green have since proven themselves to be daffodils.
None of these are technically flowers, but I did find something about each of them to be flower-like.
A tissue.
Ice cream.
Water bottle.
Playground equipment bolt.
Clementine.
collecting tokens 