{"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":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/lacewing-and-slime-mold\/","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>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[294,620,296,295,293,621],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bugs","tag-gardening","tag-grass","tag-lawn","tag-nature","tag-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t