Gatorland #4
Posted on August 6th, 2008
Gatorland #4
Now that I have a functioning computer, catching up on sorting and processing photos. This one is from Gatorland in Orlando, FL at the end of May.
Gatorland #4
I have no idea what these are but they’re freaky. They’re very small (less than a .75cm across probably) and start out as slightly fuzzy spheres with white centers. You can see two of these in this picture. Seems that eventually the sphere opens leaving the little shells with black “seeds” behind… These are in the sunny front yard. In the more shaded backyard are literally hundreds of fucking mushrooms…
In an act of possibly sanity saving slackerness, I went to my favorite contemplative spot yesterday. It’s an oddly bucolic, visually perfect little pond buzzing with dragonflys, loud frogs and turtles. I say “oddly” because it’s also just over the hill from a gravel quarry. The warning tones of dump trucks mix freely with burps of frogs. Still I like it.
So, squatting in the reeds next to the pond I saw an ant. I then proceeded to take 57 photos of this ant. Not at all surprisingly, most of these pictures sucked in a large way. But the goal wasn’t really to get a good picture, it was to stop thinking about other crap. Which I did. Felt stupidly and inanely zenlike. I loved it.
