Sabbaticalling

Friends keep asking...'so what did you do today on your Sabbatical?' lol! It's like I have to have some specific stuff to report on lol! I have been resting by the way! Also, dinner and drinks with friends. And doing little stuff around the house like replacing torn shades. And filling holes in preparation for painting my porch.

I did go to the Pompeii exhibit at the Science Museum the other day -- the ticket price seemed a bit much, but I'm a sucker for anything related to the Roman Empire! The 360 video was pretty cool, where all around you saw a nice sunny day with the people of Pompeii (or perhaps these were folks from Herculaneum) going about their daily business...until the eruption started....and then the end --




This bread was interesting -- sort of petrified from the ash/pyroclastic flow --


I don't know if I knew the eruption and burial all occurred in less than 24 hours -- and that the ash and rocks stopped in the night, so it probably felt like it was over! And then the pyroclastic flow happened!

Last weekend, I headed down to the river the other day to scope out pawpaws -- Not ripe yet, but I'd like to snag 1 or 2 this year --


By the way, the pics above are small because I'm trying a different workflow for my photos, and I exported them too small -- and I'm too lazy to do the export and upload again!

Fly on Zinnia

I was generally pleased with this shot of a fly on a Zinnia --


I had a hard time getting the shot -- I was using a heavy zoom lens, so it was difficult to hold in position, and the fly was just very small! The Zinnias seem to attract small insects -- including small butterflies, but I hardly see a larger butterfly on them. The Phlox seem to be what the larger butterflies go after.

I also have been seeing multiple Hummingbird Moths lately -- the Crepe Myrtles and Phlox both seem to be the draw!