Monthly Archives: June 2020

The Oww and the Pussycat

Posted on June 30, 2020 by krikitarts

I’ve highlighted our Grands on several occasions recently, but it’s really been quite a while since I featured the smallest member of our family—and even longer, I believe, since I posted an actual selfie, rather than just including myself in … Continue reading →

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Isolation Antidotes (36): Avast, Admiral!

Posted on June 29, 2020 by krikitarts

While going back through my archives for today’s date in past years, I came across this photo that I made only two years ago in northern Minnesota, which somehow never quite made it into a post. It’s a red admiral … Continue reading →

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Isolation Antidotes (35): Flirting With a Fantail

Posted on June 27, 2020 by krikitarts

Staying in the vein of the home bubble, I was working in the yard on Friday, moving a mass of mulch from its storage place at the edge of our garden to a new patch around some of our small … Continue reading →

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Isolation Antidotes (34): A Brace of Beauties: Abutilon

Posted on June 26, 2020 by krikitarts

We’re still cautious of leaving our bubbles, so I’ve been joining many of you in foraging close to home for photo fodder. Just outside our kitchen window grows a sparse but persistent abutilon. I have included it in two past … Continue reading →

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Webnesday (59): Lady in Red

Posted on June 23, 2020 by krikitarts

I haven’t had the chance for any photo ops with local spiders recently, but just a few days ago my photo buddy Steve in New England did a post (here) on an Arabesque Orbweaver (Neoscona arabesca) that he’d just seen … Continue reading →

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Isolation Antidotes (33): Summer Solstice, Swimmingly

Posted on June 21, 2020 by krikitarts

As the days hurry on and we greet the winter solstice here in New Zealand, I’m dreaming of past summer solstice days in Minnesota. Here’s one from exactly two years ago, featuring a mother goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) and four of … Continue reading →

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Isolation Antidotes (32): Further Forest Forays

Posted on June 19, 2020 by krikitarts

In my recent post about our holiday in Rotorua, I included a photo in which I tried to give a good impression of the size that some of the redwoods have attained by including a few of the family in … Continue reading →

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A Grand Day Out

Posted on June 17, 2020 by krikitarts

During our first escape from the city, about which I wrote a couple of posts ago, while we were in the Hamilton Gardens, we corralled the four grands together for a group shot. CD and I, and all their parents, … Continue reading →

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Isolation Antidotes (32): Remembered Reptilian Repose

Posted on June 15, 2020 by krikitarts

Thanks to the pandemic precautions, we find ourselves still here in New Zealand. We do love it here, as it is our main home now, but this is the first time in our lives together that we have not been … Continue reading →

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Isolation Antidotes (31): Frangipani Fantasy

Posted on June 13, 2020 by krikitarts

As our New Zealand pandemic risk status steadily diminishes, I’m very eager to offer a few more favorite images from my archive files. One in particular stands out in my mind that I want to be sure to include. Not … Continue reading →

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