A scary little friend out back

The picture of the day is going to be a little brown spider that thanks to a flash and macro lens looks much bigger than he or she really was. The body of spider was actually about the size of a nickel and with her legs fully extended she was close to a silver dollar in size. She couldn’t hang out where she was or I would have hit her later that night when the dogs and I went out. But while she was there she made a pretty cool picture. (Picture taken a couple of weeks back)

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Friday night bites

I am going to begin photoblogging and have decided to use my worthyjourney site. We’ll see how easy it is and I’ll get back to you on that one later.

Here’s a picture of Fridays dinner guest, turns out I now prefer my steak at least medium-well rather than chard-to-a-crisp as I typically had in the past. This was one tender steak.

First photos posted

I really have taken to the idea of a hobby that I can share with my wife.  Suzanne has a really good eye for framing and later cropping photos on our Mac and really seems to share my enjoyment of taking photos.  We are going on our vacation later in the month and I expect we will have plenty to play with after that as well.  So without further adieu here is the first batch…