Blue Caterpillar

Found a turquoise/blue caterpillar on a cauliflower. My dad said that he will raise it to see what it will become. It looks very weird...

Blue Caterpillar

My First Ocean Fish!

Today I managed to catch my first fish from the ocean at New Brighton State Beach. I only caught one, but in comparison with my usual catch rate of zero, I have made some progress!

Barred Surf Perch

The First Jalapeno Has Been Picked!

I have a jalapeno plant on my patio, and I have waited for the first one to become fully red before I picked it. I don't know if it's more or less spicy than when they are green and not fully mature. I guess I will have to try...

Hiking in Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve

Hiking today in Sierra Azul, I used my dad's camera and got some nice pictures.
P.S. (I saw that there is a caption setting when you click on the pictures so I will use that from now on.)

A bird with an acorn.

Damselfly

Grasshopper

Another Grasshopper

Junco lifting off (I can't believe I got this picture!)

Flying Junco (Another really cool picture!)

A nice fuzzy caterpillar that I ended up letting walk all over
me.

Baby rattlesnake

Common Buckeye Butterfly

UC Santa Cruz wildlife research box. It has a camera and
flash on the front. It probably doesn't take pictures during
the day, but I made a face at it just in case.

Top of UCSC research box.

Photography Around the Apartments

My parents said that I had been inside for way too long and that I should find more outside activities to do, so I decided to take a short walk around my apartment complex. I brought my camera along with me and found a few simple everyday things and took some pictures from different points of view, showing them in a perspective that normally we don't see.

Irrigation Control Box

Storm Drain Cover

Purple Flowers

Dandelion

Pill Bug Update

I know I haven't posted anything in a while, so I took the time to take a picture of the pill bug babies progression. In this picture they are swarming around a tomato.

Pill Bug Babies!

I checked on my pill bugs today, and I saw little white things crawling around. When I looked in, I realized that they were tiny, white pill bugs! Yes, they are babies! I know the quality of this picture sucks, but they are really hard to focus on, even though I used the digital microscope to take the picture. I measured them, and they range from 1 - 1.5 millimeters in length... They're so cute!

Yes, all those little white things are baby pill bugs!