The Sting
No -- I didn't get up on a ladder. I tried to use an old canon zoom lens from our old film camera -- but I couldn't get a good focus.
The colors are striking in the wasp paper.
Little venomous artists.
An Old Cold Spot
My brother Mike emailed me this photo last night. He said this was a goodbye salute that he snapped today in his garage where this old freezer has been chugging away since 1988. That was the year our mama decided she was tired of bending over and digging through it. Besides, she no longer needed the capacity and hadn't for several years. Mike and my sister-in-law spent the next 25 years "digging" through this old freezer. My sis-in-law was very good at keeping it and the cupboards stocked. The two of them kept promising each other that "It is going to die soon, so we will just keep it until that day." Twenty-five years may seem like a very long life for a freezer. It is MUCH older than that. Sears only sold Coldspot through 1976. I thought that my parent's purchased this freezer in the sixties. My brother said he put the serial number 'on-line' and it matched a 1953 manufacturing date. Here is a close up of the make and model that
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They sure make cool nests!
The most common type of wasp around here is the mud dauber. We find their nests all over and they frequently get trapped in the house. I usually just let them buzz around on the upper windows until they eventually keel over. The only time one of us has been stung is when a half dead wasp was on our bed one night and we didn't realize it. Danny flopped down right on top of it.
I know there are paper wasps out here, too, since I often see their abandoned nests, but I don't know if I've ever seen the insects themselves.
xoxo,
Connie
it looked like a severed head, hanging on the wall.