Roadkill

Sorry guys, but this one is pretty self-explanatory!

I took the shot through the windshield of my car which is probably why it appears blurry. I was going to get out of my car and take a shot of it from all sides but then I thought someone would see me and call the men in the white jackets so I refrained from doing so! Besides, I think it paints a clear enough picture just from the back, don't you?!

Friends

My friend the frog comes back almost nightly to sleep on my front step. Usually, he's alone except on this particular night he had an icky little friend keeping him company.

For some reason, I couldn't get the shot right by taking it in the normal fashion so I used to my infrared night shot feature. Not all the night shots I take with this feature come out this grainy. I'm still in the process of figuring out my camera!

mysterious critters

Last month, my daughter and I spotted this insect outside. It's red with black stripes and it crawled super fast on the ground. It was the first time in my near-nine years of being here that I had ever seen such a thing. My daughter thought it resembled an ant while I thought it looked like a wingless wasp. Turns out we were both right!

I did research but found out very little. It's amazing what the news will teach you! I rarely watch the news but did so last night because we were having a rough patch of weather and I wanted to see if we were expecting anymore. On came a story about a man who's been dealing with these kinds of insects. They are called Red Velvet Ants but are actually wasps and their stings pack such a wallop, that they are nicknamed Cow Ants because they could kill a cow!