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I'm on vacation in West Virginia right now, but through the magic of computing I set this photo to appear today:

Wolf spider mommies really tote the kids around.

I've seen plenty of wolf spiders dragging a round white egg case around, but I'd never considered what happened next. Apparantly, momma totes them around until they're big enough to hunt on their own. Very cool.

Standard screen size wallpaper

Aaron Mahler has inspired me to start posting photographs to my blog.

Widescreen wallpaper

I'll start with a made-for-desktop closeup of a clematis blossom. It was intended as a reference picture so that I could identify the flower later, but it came out far better than I had intended. The iridescence was completely unexpected. As with all content posted to this site, this is released under a cc-by-sa-2.5 license, so copy away.