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Over Memorial Day Weekend I bought a fancy schmancy new camera that is 10.2 Megapixel and has a zoom of 18-200mm. 

I’ve been toying around with it since and am proud to finally show off the first Coolness!!! photo to post from it.

Those are budding blooms of my butterfly bush set against the dusk sky and the shot was taken in my backyard.

I’m really digging the in and out of focus between the forefront and different levels of background there…TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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The other day I opened the door to my backyard and screamed like a little girl because of this…

It was a big fat slug!

And it was as big as my finger!  YUCK! 

He had made it down the seven steps only to get stuck at the base of the door, but I helped him up and back out to the garden underneath some forsythia. 

Viva la Slug!!!  TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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Check out this lily bloom….

TOTAL COOLNESS!!! 

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Last year on a whim I bought an elephant ear bulb, planted it, and hoped for the best with it.  Success was had and I ended up with huge elephant ear leaves. Then in the fall I cut up all the leaves, began a compost bin with them and then went to dig up the bulb to store for the winter and found that the one bulb turned into many bulbs.

I kept and planted the one new bulb that looked biggest and strongest to me and gave away the others while not knowing if I would actually get this new bulb to grow.  Low and behold a squirrel spent about 15 minutes a couple of weeks back devouring much of that once healthy looking elephant ear bulb while I ate my breakfast and I thought that I would be out of luck when it came to elephant ear this year, but not so…

The little bulb that could has begun to sprout some giant leaves.  Just look at the underside of that one!  Dare I say it, but that is one sexy underside of a leaf if there ever is one.  It’s roughly the size of my torso, and if you look at the stem you can see the beginnings of another leaf all rolled up and ready to say hello to the world…TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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Daisy!  With a tiny ant on one of the white petals…

I love having daisies in my garden.  I have three different types of daisies so that I can get several months worth of bloom each year. 

These first bloomers were just wonderful this year and I’ve already harvested some of their seeds before cutting off the rest of the spent blooms.  Five plus weeks of sexy blooms is TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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After a week full of laptop problems that had me thinking that Coolness!!! this week would be in danger I finally fixed the problem and was able to upload this cool shot of a bumble bee zipping up up and away!

I just love how his legs are drooping down while his body is jumping up.  TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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A couple of weeks ago when I had dozens of blooming iris flowers I kept watching a bunch of big fat bumble bees.

This one bee that is in the above photo went to just about every single open bloom and crawled through them for extra goodies. 

Now that bloom was huge in real life and that bee was about an inch in length, just look at it all in all of its glory!  TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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I spotted my first butterfly of 2008 a couple of weeks ago and it was glorious!

It was hanging out dipping itself into the many many many rhododendron blooms that I had while big giant bumble bees were zipping around all over. It was…TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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Here’s a shot of a big ball of an allium bloom. 

That bee kept flying and attacking this ball with great fury.  It was TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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I’m officially in the middle of crazy arse bee season in my backyard.  With the hive of these big fat bumble bees roughly ten feet up off the ground it’s truly amazing to have a plethora of bees flying around antagonizing one another for better access to the blooms of my garden.  Check out this one that was part of the giant orgy on my seven foot tall rhododendron…

And check out the pattern of those blossoms to boot!!  Everything together is TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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There’s been some cool things that I’ve seen out of my window of late that I’ve been trying to capture in the form of a photo.  Namely two blue jays that have been hanging out lusting after one another, a four or so inch black bird with orange or yellow (I forget) vertical stripes that I’ve never seen before, a cardinal trying to catch a bee, and then there was this…

Yes!  That is a squirrel and it has a big cookie in its mouth as it scurried across the telephone cables.  I have no idea where it obtained the cookie from, but it looked so cool.  It was TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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Over the weekend there was some early morning rain over in my neighborhood.  By the time I woke up it was over, gone, and the sun was still hiding behind the clouds.  Everything had some form of dew on it, leaving most flying insects hanging around waiting for their wings to dry off to fly once again. 

That’s how I found these two flies…

They were staying as still as still could be, not flinching with the flash, and just hanging out on the wooden trellis - TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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Take a look at this here plant whose name I completely forget. 

A month ago the naked eye could barely see any of the new green growth popping up out from the ground - but it’s alive and growing -TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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Here’s a shot of my butterfly bush that is coming out of a dormant state. 

And a plastic garden-cat that makes the grave of my pet eel…COOLNESS!!!

R.I.P. Neil the Eel.   

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As I strolled down near the Narrows I looked up the hill and found this squirrel sitting on top of a tree stump. 

He was just sitting there and looked to be enjoying the spring air.  Based on its location there’s a good chance that the stump is what remains of a tree after the tornado last summer.  Glad to see the squirrel still gets good use out of the tree - TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

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