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Walnut orb-weaver (Nuctenea umbriatica) spider perched on a leaf.
Kołosz szczelinowy (Nuctenea umbriatica) siedzący na liściu.
Squirrels scatter these about. They also bury some without breaking them open. That being the reason there are a lot of walnut trees growing around here.
As beautiful as this tree looks, especially when the sun makes the yellow fall leaves glow, it can be such a menace in the city. We have several growing in our neighbourhood. During the fall, I am acutely aware they are there when the big walnuts drop from the tree almost hitting my head. We try to walk around them as much as we can because I swear the black squirrels see us coming and get ready to throw the next nut at us. They still resent the fact that I successfully discouraged them from getting into our backyard bird feeders. If we are not careful on sidewalks, there are hidden nuts under the fallen leaves and we have almost twisted an ankle when our foot rolls over the wet nut. One of our grandchildren has a severe allergy to walnuts if he eats them. By the time he started his allergic reaction at home and he then was whisked away to the hospital by ambulance, this 4 year old had three Epi pen injections to try to control the symptoms. Now he is in a school that has a Walnut tree in his play yard. He came home with a serious reaction to just touching the nut one day. Maybe we should think of better places to plant these lovely trees. For the theme: Tree-mendous Tuesday!
Something special for "my" squirrel. It took a while until it saw the walnut but then..sniff,sniff...weee..off it was!
Walnut orb-weaver (Nuctenea umbratica) suspended on its web.
Kołosz szczelinowy (Nuctenea umbratica) zawieszony na swojej pajęczynie.
An eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train crosses a minimum maintenance road on a small trestle just west of Walnut Grove, MN. Just out of frame to the right, they'll cross Plum Creek, the locale for Little House on the Prairie, and climb a slight hill into town. The third unit is PNWR 3051. There's a chance it once traveled these rails long ago as it started life as a Chicago & North Western dynamic brake-less SD45 before being acquired by Kansas City Southern and rebuilt into an SD40-3.
citizens of little world are very sporty. But this one goes a bit too far by trying to go for a dive within this walnut :)
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RCPE MMNAU rolls west on ex-C&NW rails near Walnut Grove, Minnesota on the last day before the start of daylight savings.
40 pictures taken with Helicon Remote. Developed with Helicon Focus in standard mode (Method B), no post-processing with retouching tool.
This composite image is from the Countrywood neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California. One of Jupiter's moons is visible to the lower right of Jupiter. Saturn has a vaguely ringed shape but no individual rings are visible.
I was able to get a more close-up and detailed image later on this night, but without any scenery to provide a local context:
Not a great setting, but I was surprised to see this beautiful moth land on one or our brick walls...