{"id":1341,"date":"2012-08-13T20:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2012-08-13T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:42:39","slug":"lacewing-and-slime-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/lacewing-and-slime-mold.html","title":{"rendered":"Lacewing and Slime Mold"},"content":{"rendered":"

What???<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah…um…I had a good old time today photographing assorted stuff with the new camera while I was doing lawn work. \u00a0First of all, this lacewing has been sitting all day on our door from the garage into the house.<\/p>\n

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A lacewing<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m starting to dabble a little with the post-processing that iPhoto offers. \u00a0Dave has numerous other options in his Paintshop Elements but I haven’t used that at all. \u00a0The lacewing pictured here is simply my hitting the “Enhance” button.<\/p>\n

The next picture is of some “slime mold” that’s been in spots all over my front lawn, due to the volumes of rain we’ve been getting. \u00a0Sunday was a really nice day, the family got to visit the beach. \u00a0It was the first day in over a week that thunderstorms didn’t chase us indoors. \u00a0As a consequence, though, my lawn is covered in mushrooms, dead spots due to grass root rot and this spotted moldiness. \u00a0Click in the link in the caption below to learn more about this stuff. \u00a0There’s nothing I can do about it but let it run its course.<\/p>\n

I fiddled with the more fine tuning features in iPhoto to make this picture greener than the original picture.<\/p>\n

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Learn more about grass slime mold through this Ohio State Extension service flyer<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What??? Yeah…um…I had a good old time today photographing assorted stuff with the new camera while I was doing lawn work. \u00a0First of all, this lacewing has been sitting all day on our door from the garage into the house. I’m starting to dabble a little with the post-processing that iPhoto offers. \u00a0Dave has numerous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[294,620,296,295,293,621],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-lD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":647,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/09\/a-geeky-experiment-converting-mowing-the-huge-lawn-into-mileage-and-calories.html","url_meta":{"origin":1341,"position":0},"title":"A Geeky Experiment: Converting Mowing the Huge Lawn into Mileage and Calories","date":"09 September 11","format":false,"excerpt":"This is about 1\/2 of the backyard in view here. \u00a0You can also see our backyard on our weather webcam here. \u00a0For some reason the homeowner removed every...single...tree...and...shrub from his lawn. \u00a0On Google maps you could see an area of pine trees in the middle of the backyard, but no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"back to school\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kAbDrYzODiI\/TMdME5M7HlI\/AAAAAAABNJ0\/rFfF1EmOTcA\/s640\/IMG_4889.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":716,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/03\/spring-break-road-trip-2012-part-1-west-virginia-and-a-circus.html","url_meta":{"origin":1341,"position":1},"title":"Spring Break Road Trip 2012, Part 1: West Virginia and a Circus","date":"22 March 12","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week was the kids' Spring Break. \u00a0The family headed up to West Virginia to visit my parents, thanks to their offer for us to take their riding lawn mower. \u00a0My Dad bought it 1-2 years ago, but they don't use it much. \u00a0I guess they felt sorry for us\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"circus\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-GAjSPsMa0Ps\/T2NFxCm6erI\/AAAAAAABfpY\/aD3YNoDHM4M\/s640\/IMG_1772.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":642,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/08\/wordless-wednesday-ewwww.html","url_meta":{"origin":1341,"position":2},"title":"Wordless Wednesday — EWWWW!","date":"31 August 11","format":false,"excerpt":"You usually see these things curled up about 1\/2\" down in your lawn. \u00a0Not crawling across your street in 90F temperatures! \u00a0Kudos to my iPhone camera for getting some nice (or not so nice?) closeups!","rel":"","context":"In \"fauna\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-bWuTtvWXBDk\/Tl4wavHxEDI\/AAAAAAABZ3U\/TS0xji5EnvA\/s640\/IMG_5529.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/we-put-the-dump-in-dumpling.html","url_meta":{"origin":1341,"position":3},"title":"We put the DUMP in DUMPLING!","date":"01 January 08","format":false,"excerpt":"So how were they? 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