Chuck,
You were probably wise. There are some things about Florida that the
Chamber of Commerce never mentions. When we lived in Maitland for several
months in 1966, we were notified by the local school, which two of our boys
attended, that there would be a snake roundup on the school grounds on
Saturday.....
One morning they arrived at school to find a rattler blocking the front
entrance.
Never go into the palmetto without snakeproof boots!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Occasional Flowers on Friday
>I meant to take some photos of tassel flowers yesterday. They are one
> of my favorite Florida wildflowers and have little red blossoms also
> about 8mm diameter. However, to get to where the flowers were I would
> have had to wade through an area of patchy high grasses and weeds. It
> struck me as a perfect place for an Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake to
> lie in wait for prey.
>
> I was about to do it anyhow when I suddenly noticed what was probably
> the burrow of a Gopher tortoise about 4 feet from the flowers. Eastern
> Diamondbacks are lazy when it comes to burrows and are quite content to
> let the Gopher tortoises do the work and then move in with them as
> uninvited guests. I decided I really didn't need those particular
> tassel flower shots.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Thanks, Chuck. I measured the blooms, out of curiosity. They were about
>> 8mm square.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Occasional Flowers on Friday
>>
>>
>>> Mighty purty and a shame they're going to disappear under the lawnmower.
>>> I was searching for some sense of scale when I finally noticed the
>>> clover comment. Thanks for that.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>> This week's flowers are very tiny, but caught my eye.
>>>>
>>>> Oly E-1 with Leica Elmarit-R 60/2.8 Macro
>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Small+Faces.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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