The brown beetle

I found this beetle on my gardening shoe. I tried to make it stay on some colorful paper for a better shot. I zoomed it and I used the macro and the super macro settings. I have to learn to hold my camera very very still when doing these macros. I took the beetle outside to the patio table and finally to the deck from where I let it go, unharmed, but probably quite tired. It had a terrible time getting upright again when I would flip it on its back to slow it down a bit. It was not very fast, though. I think it was an old beetle. It has very long antenna and a black spot on either side, midway down its back part. It was about and inch, inch and a quarter long.

Yesterday I mowed the lawn and dumped the clippings on the garden. It is very hot. We are having a heat wave. It is suppose to last about a week. It was up to 28 yesterday, and as I type this the thermometer sits at 34 celcius. Its not too bad in the house though. We have curtains closed and fans running. That skylight sure lets in a lot of hot.

Saxe Point Sunset

This is tonite's sunset at Saxe Point.

I have a couple of photos from West Bay Marina from today, and I have a few of the deck plants. I think my old A50 took sharper photos. It did RAW too. It must be the way I am holding this camera. I shall have to start to hold it like I hold the Elan 7e, with my hand under the lens to hold it still when I hit the shutter button. Holding it by the sides does not work. Too much movement.


I feel I accomplished quite a lot today. My light garden is cleaned up and all watered. The vegetable garden and some of the back got some water today. Filled the pond. The little bee hive is now empty and the wasps are gone.

Pat fixed the fridge gas burner in the camper van, and it now lights. It had a whole bunch of rust and carbon in the little pipe that he cleaned up. Then we took it for a test run out to Saxe Point and West Bay Marina with the fridge running. It got quite cold in the freezer and cooled down quite a bit in the rest of the fridge.

Glacier

A couple of shots of the Glacier near Comox that I took on Thursday. I was shooting from the corner of 6th and Evergreen in Courtenay. So that is a long stretch for my long lens. I did not have the teleconverter attached nor was I using a tripod. There is a bit of noise because of the zoom using digital as well as optical zoom.

I am thinking about loading the signed one to Flicker as one of my groups wants a landscape without buildings, etc. no sunsets.