Taking Some Time Off

Many of you have noticed that I haven't been active here or on other blogs for about a week. This is because I've been very busy, and things are only going to get busier for me for a little while. My dad is very sick, and he needs me to take care of him for awhile. This involves me temporarily moving to another state. I may even move there permanently.

And for the foreseeable future I will be offline. I don't know for sure how long it's going to take, but I hope to get everything situated and be back here online in about a month. Right now I'm not at all sure what is going to happen. But one way or another I'll be back here posting again as soon as I can. Until then there are links to some excellent nature blogs in my sidebar.

Nature Center Magazine will also be temporarily shutting down after the end of this week. So keep reading there this week. Copas and Emma volunteered to keep that site going but I just can't properly administer it. It's possible I can fix it so they can be back a little sooner than I will, so keep watching for their posts.

Rat Tales will not be effected by any of this except that I will not be able to answer comments there or return any visits. I currently have an episodic story there called "A Haunted Soul", and it will continue as scheduled. I hope to be back by the time the last episode is posted. So leave me plenty of comments there. :)

It has been almost exactly a year since the car accident that slowed my blogging down, and I have never really fully recovered from that. So it has not been a good year for me. The whole time has given me a life of instability. I'm hoping that after this next month I will know a little more about what the future holds. Maybe I'll even come back as strong as ever.

Thanks to all of you who read this site and the others, and especially to those of you who like to leave me comments. I hope you all come back when I finally am abler to post again. I hope to be back in a month.

Damselfly Party

Did I ever tell you that I have more than one favorite place at the nature parks I visit? I probably did, but I'm telling it to you again. For some reason most of them are either on or close to bridges. This latest one I visited is no exception.

I won't show you the bridge this time, but I'm going to show you what I was looking at while I stood on the bridge. It was this little group of damselflies. I had to stop and watch them because I usually only see one at a time, but this time there several.

I guess this is the time of year for all the bugs to get their last business in before it gets too cold for them. These damselflies were just swarming the area around this little river. They moved so fast that it was hard to get any pictures at all. But there were so many that I got as many as I wanted.

Even three damselflies at a time was not out of the question. But they were always on the move. I had to be quick every time I clicked the shutter button on my camera. But there was something interesting about them that I noticed.

Ifa damselfly finds a spot that it likes it will fly away but then quickly come right back to that favored spot. I watched these do that multiple times so I was able to keep my camera pointed to that very same spot and get many pictures of them.

Here are the same three damselflies getting a little too close to each other, so they flew away again to their other leaves. I had many more pictures like these, but you probably only want to see three. I could have stood there all day looking down from the bridge at these dragonflies. But it's time for us to move on.

Nature is so full of interesting things to see, and so is the internet. We have a one of my favorite videos ever over at Nature Center Magazine today. It shows a whole year of a nature park in just a minute or two. So many things go by.

And over at Rat Tales I have the newest episode of A Haunted Soul. This one features a huge change for our lonely ghost. He now has some visitors that have come to the castle grounds, and they have come specifically to see him.

I'll be back next time with an all new everyday adventure. What will I bring you? What will we see? I don't know yet either. I hope it's something good!


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