Photography 101: Home

Posted on November 3, 2014 by treshabarger

I registered for the WordPress Photography 101 challenge. This is a new photograph, taken this last Saturday. Seems we have more than one Argiope Aurantia hanging about.

A spider, an Argiope Aurantia, near a wire fence

Hanging out by the fence

Photography 101: Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art (2)

Posted on October 30, 2014 by treshabarger

A stained glass window of a carousel horse

Beautiful work

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art

On Tippy Toes

Posted on October 28, 2014 by treshabarger

I love art in open spaces.

A sculpture of a small horse, movement indicated by its muscles, its hair and it being on its tiptoes

Lovely indication of movement

Back Porch Surprise

Posted on October 26, 2014 by treshabarger

I started to walk out the back door, saw this snake out of the corner of my eye and decided that inside was the place to be. Fortunately, it was a rat snake, not a rattlesnake, and it did not harm me as I passed within a few inches of it.

I came around the back from the opposite direction to take this photo. Hubby and I let the snake go its way, off the back porch.

Rat snake on the back porch wall

Exotic Game Ranch

Posted on October 19, 2014 by treshabarger

As part of the annual Creedmoor Oktoberfest, Texas Disposal Systems opens up their exotic game ranch for tours. TDS provides a home for more than 2,000 animals (100-plus species) with many of them on them endangered species list. Hunting is not allowed on the TDS Exotic Game Ranch.

Last year I showed up too late in the day at Oktoberfest and missed the tour. This year I made sure I was on the first bus, camera in hand. It’s an abbreviated tour and we didn’t get to see all the areas or all the animals, but there were plenty of exotic game in the pastures we drove through.
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A Blackbuck antelope, from the Indian subcontinent.