This is not an uncommon sight to my eyes during weekend afternoons. :D

Hmm…idle observation…Wordpress makes it too easy to want to post many multiples of different entries/pics a day. Haha. It makes the 8-entry front page cycle way too fast, tho. I could increase the front page to 10 or 12 entries but if you post a lot of photos that always feels unwieldy. At least the right-side “recent posts” menu displays 15 posts.

Our neighbor was on his roof this afternoon, trying to shake down some avocados from their tree. I don’t know how many fell into his yard, but 7 of them fell into our yard, and they’re ours now. Hah! Some of them are really big, as you can see in the picture below, where I used a banana to compare lengths.

It was nice to get some “fresh” avocados this time around. The avocados currently left on the tree (and there’s still a lot of them) are so high up that we’d need a 20-30 foot pole to knock them down ourselves. So most of the time, we just wait for them to fall to the ground on their own…or for the squirrels to knock them down for us. I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned that the squirrels like to do that? They bounce on the branches to get the fruit to fall, and then spend several days chewing holes in the avocados at their leisure. Our yard near the fence is littered with avocado pits…oh, we recently saw a raccoon run across the back fence, so maybe he eats some too.

Anyway, between gravity and the squirrels, we might manage to grab one or two un-chewed upon avocados a week. Getting seven at once, where they were largely undamaged, is cool. Thanks, neighbor.

Hoverfly hanging around our rose bush. As usual, these are crops. The full-frame pics or slight edge crops are actually ok at 8×11 printed size, but if I resized it down to 450px webpage size, the fly becomes minuscule. So the webpage gets massive crop versions. :P

I still refuse to use a tripod most of the time. Besides…with insects in the wild, they wouldn’t sit still for tripod framing anyway.