patagonia

A few throwback photos from the trip to Patagonia my junior year, in 2005.  Evidence that the subject, not the camera, makes the photo (taken with an ancient bricklike Sony point-and-shoot that I thought was cutting edge at the time).

lucky

A weird talent of mine is finding four-leaf clovers.  I am strangely adept at spotting them in clover patches, and I always pluck and press them in books, only to find them years later.  I found three today while exploring the patches in my yard.

If only this luck would translate to real life.  I could put it on my resume: "Good at finding four-leaf clovers and turning that luck into efficiency in the workplace."

Tiny garden slug, about half an inch long.

Leaf miner trails.  You can see the tiny droppings left by the caterpillars living between the two epidermal leaf layers.  As they eat their way through the leaf, feeding on the chloroplast-containing palisade cells, they remove the green tissue, leaving only clear surface layers behind.  Definitely click and enlarge this one--you can see minuscule beads of condensation on the inner side of the leaf epidermis.

gibbous

Taken with a 55-200mm lens on a clear night.

pollination

A honeybee on my friend's boardshorts at the beach.

palmetto

South Carolina's state tree, the palmetto, at dusk.

candlelight vigil

Students light each others' candles at a vigil I attended for a classmate who recently passed away.