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Buck in velvet, Lowville, NY

7/28/2016

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Nice buck in velvet.  It'll be at least a four point, probably more given how far out the main beam that first split is.
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Lowville, New York white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
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Pyrotechnics

7/27/2016

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A bit of a light show at the Butler Cave fieldhouse
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Lighting up the night
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Praying mantis, Bath County, Virginia

7/26/2016

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This praying mantis is a nymph stage, so I can't be 100% sure of the species, but seems like a European Mantis (Manis religiosa).  You can tell that it is a nymph because it doesn't have it's wings yet, like the angel in It's a Wonderful Life.  But here we use the word of the day:  Paurometabolous.  This lies somewhere between Hemimetabolous and Holometabolous on the metamorphosis scale.  Essentially it means that after the mantis' eggs hatch the little nymphs look pretty much like tiny adults (and act like tiny adults), only instead of full wings they might have just some small wing buds.  They will get their wings after a final molt into an adult.
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A mantis nymph on a Queen Anne's Lace flower (Daucus carota)
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Butler Cave, Virginia.  "The Showers"

7/24/2016

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About a mile into the cave (it has over 17 miles of passages) you come to a place known as The Showers.  Clean, cool water rains down from above and you can wash up a bit, while the floor is a giant mud hole getting slime everywhere.
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John Podlenski, Matthew Toney and Connor Christenson at The Showers in Butler Cave, VA
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Rappelling above the Potomac River at Great Falls National Park

7/19/2016

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Just another day at the office around here.  Connor Christenson doing some death-defying rappel work on the cliffs above the raging Potomac River.  He is fully rigged to climb the rope back to the top, and did so without being swept away.
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Connor Christenson on rappel at Great Falls National Park
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A caiman waiting for food

7/18/2016

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Now this is just silly.
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Metal sculpture at Meadowlark Gardens, Vienna, VA
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In case you were unsure

7/17/2016

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Just to avoid any confusion as to what this is, it is branded "FUD" (pronounced like "food" in English.  Yes, it is food.  Turkey hot dogs to be exact, assuming you do in fact consider such things as real food.
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FUD on the grocery shelf in Costa Rica
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House finch from Falls Church, VA

7/15/2016

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The house finch is native to the western US, but in 1940 it was released in New York and has been spreading across the eastern US ever since.  They are attractive little birds that we see around town on occasion.  This male is particularly bright.
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Male house finch from Falls Church, VA
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Who, me???

7/14/2016

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Gray squirrel in the grass at West End Park in Falls Church, VA
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The pretty flowers

7/13/2016

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Lots of super pretty flowers at Meadowlark Gardens, but wasn't really there to take pics of them.
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One of the hundreds of flower varieties at Meadowlark Gardens
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