Buggin' out ...

I made a quick stop along the side of the road at the pulloff between Dixon and Oregon, today. Took a five minute walk along the trail and came across some busy workers sharing some food ...

Catch up ....

Simple HDR image of lightning looking south toward Princeton where the storms hit the hardest.

More Lightning.

My mom on Mother's Day at my sister's house, working at the kitchen sink.

Finally, a smile!.The enemy, the elusive pest known as the Japanese Beetle. Notice his snapper as he devours my pin oak tree.

A full view of his backside. If you ask me, he looks chubby and needs to be squashed.

More of the damage he causes when he eats my trees.

Two Japanese beetles in a different life stage. Did you know that these creatures can eat and mate at the same time?
The devestation to one of my dwarf apple trees, known as skeletonizing. This happened only in a matter of hours. This is why the Japanese Beetles have been classified as enemy number 1 and must be destroyed.