Today was supposed to be pretty overcast and rainy as well. At least, that's what they said yesterday. Instead it turned out to be a gorgeous day. Decent heat (maybe 80 deg F) and lots of sun. It became necessary to leave work a little early and go for a walk!
I headed to North Boundary Trail Greenway off of the Oak Ridge Turnpike. I needed a little variety. Anyway, I only walked for a couple of miles. Still trying to take it easy after Saturday. Plus, it was still very wet, and I managed to get my shoes somewhat soaked roughly a mile in. I didn't think it would be a great idea to walk a whole lot more in wet shoes. I snapped something like 150 shots, but didn't get a whole lot of great ones. I will say that the place was infested with these buggers:
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| From North Boundary Photowalk - 2010-05-03 |
That's a Red-Spotted Purple butterfly. Weird name, right? It turns out that it's the same species as the White Admiral. I think it's kinda cool you can have such variation just among a particular species.
They were incredibly hard to photograph - very nervous and impossible to get close to. The image above is really a crop (maybe 25% of the original) that was taken with my longest lens. It's still not very great quality, but it will do.
Other notable images include:
Pale blue-eyed grass:
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| From North Boundary Photowalk - 2010-05-03 |
Injured butterfly (uncropped, it couldn't fly away so I could get very close :()
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| From North Boundary Photowalk - 2010-05-03 |
Common Fleabane (as far as I can tell, at least):
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| From North Boundary Photowalk - 2010-05-03 |
Hit up the album for the rest of the semi-decent pictures. There were a ton of cool spiders, but I don't seem to have come away with any pictures that were in reasonable focus. It was relatively windy, and of course the webs were moving around a lot.
ObGPS link.
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