I know it's not great, but just getting back to practicing is big progress for me lol. I realize I made his cranium too small/face too big.
It was really hot and muggy today, so the sky looks hazy, but if you want to see PEI's sand dunes and listen to some gentle waves, I've got you covered!
I'm almost certain this is an AI image, though I'm having trouble finding a single detail that would prove it. It's advertising a photography contest that does not accept AI submissions, so using AI in this ad seems particularly odd.
I remember going to a children's science museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a kid. I think I was there in the early 2000s, maybe towards the mid 2000s. In the gift shop there were these rubber balls that had a name like "Lava Balls" or "Volcano Balls" or "Thunder Balls", or something along those lines. There were dark in colour with a bit of orange or red to represent either lava or lightning. In my search, I have found "Waboba Lava Balls", which seem very close to what I remember, but I recall that the ones at the gift shop were specifically designed to make a kind of rumbling sound when they hit something. This was part of the volcano or thunder theming. It wasn't a speaker playing a recorded sound - there was something inside the balls that vibrated a certain way when they hit a hard surface, making a brief rumbling noise that was not very loud, but definitely noticeable. I believe that the sound was one of the selling points. When looking at Waboba Lava Balls online, I don't see any mention of them making an unusual sound. Was there a version of the Waboba ball that made a rumbling sound? Or am I merging together two different rubber ball toys in my head? Maybe the one that made the rumbling sound looked different, but the museum gift shop had the Waboba Lava Balls too, and my memory combined them? I dreamed about that rubber ball before waking up for work this morning, and I keep thinking about it. Thanks in advance for any info!
This park near my home is full of red squirrels. Somebody (not me, for the record) had left out some corn chips, which is what the squirrel is eating in two pictures. The park is also home to some eastern chipmunks, but I see the squirrels way more often.
I don't keep isopods, but I think they're neat. I like seeing them in the wild.
Please ignore the other plants in the pot. I got this mandevilla almost two weeks ago. I have watered it a few times after putting it in this pot. It's in a room that gets a lot of light, but no sunlight directly hits the plant itself, so I have been using a grow light on it. It bloomed shortly after I repotted it, but now it is dropping leaves and looks miserable. Did I over-water? Under-water? The place where I got it from seems to water a lot, and they use fertilizer in their water. I used a bit of luquid fertilizer when watering this plant after I bought it too. Please help me save this thing!
I don't remember seeing lion's mane jellyfish eating moon jellyfish before this year, but I just got some more photos of possible predation (plus some other photos I wanted to share).
Tiny marine isopods I saw recently. It looks like a bigger one holding a smaller one. I'm not sure if they're breeding, or the smaller one is being eaten, or what. iNaturalist's automated ID suggests they are baltic isopods.