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The wilderness outside your window – Texas wildflowers – San Antonio

Texas is certainly nowhere near as green as Missouri, but the wildflowers go a long way in making up for that. Every highway is lined with bright yellows and oranges and blues and whites, which show up vividly against the drab, brown earth. I hope to take my camera when I am out riding some time, but when I am on my bike I am loathe to stop. These flowers where just beside my brother’s house. And, yes, even there scaredy old me was on the lookout for rattlesnakes.

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Bigger in Texas? Yes, indeed! San Antonio Katydids

I am pretty sure that these guys are katydids, but I am just not sure which sort. I think that they may be from the genus pediodectes. With their torsos being about 2 inches long, these guys are pretty big.

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Guest Blogger: Papa Dassler Shows Us How It Is Done

Well, “Papa Dassler” is actually Dr. Vincent A. Das, my dad, who is very fine photographer and who back in the day would send in and win photo contests in Pakistan and abroad, back when photography involved taking your film to a shop and working with shop owners to get it just right. Well, though the process is much different–this was taken with a digital camera and worked on with the help of brother Virgil–the results are still the same: very nice.

More importantly, though, is what Dad passed on. His genes for one :) but, more pointedly, a willingness to allow his kids to experiment with cameras. The aforementioned Virgil actually dropped a camera in an irrigation pond while experimenting and Dad was a champ about it. At any rate, here is some of his recent work.

And look for Dad and Virg in the Evoking Spring photo contest, though how will you know which photos are theirs’ until May 15th ;) dad4

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