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  1. #171
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist View Post
    And here's a cute little critter..

    I'll see your Black Widow Spider, and raise you one nasty Momma bark scorpion, with her brood on her back!



    This one isn't my photo--credit goes to Joel Sartore, the brilliant National Geographic photographer responsible for the Photo Ark project, an attempt to document as many of the earth's creatures as possible, before they disappear.

    I used to hunt Black Widows at night, at my house in Phoenix, with a flashlight in one hand, and a fly swatter in the other. They build crappy little webs, low to the ground, around house foundations and the like, and they'll eat just about anything that gets caught in it. The ladies produce a big egg sack, and if you don't destroy them before they hatch, you'll have a hundred baby black widows crawling all over the place.

    We have scorpions here as well. When I was a kid, my friends and I used to catch them and put them in jars. There was a professor at ASU, a Dr. Stahnke, who needed scorpions for his research into their venom, and he'd pay us two bits apiece for as many as we could bring him. (In case you weren't a kid back in the '50's, at that time, two bits--25 cents--was a lot! Enough to buy you two comic books and a candy bar!) I have to wonder what the Professor would have paid for this lovely specimen? How could you even count those things?

    Rick

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    Rick,

    That is an awesome photo of the scorpion. We have a black light flashlight for the purpose of hunting scorpions. They really show up well.

    Mark

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    Default Marvin the Road Dog

    Here is a cute one.

    Marvin the Road Dog in Antelope Valley in 1994.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist View Post
    Here is a cute one.

    Marvin the Road Dog in Antelope Valley in 1994.
    Quite a bit cuter than the scorpion!

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    Default looks uncomfortable for all concerned

    Another animal, not quite as cute as Marvin the Road Dog!


    Riverside County Fair

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    Default Doesn't look like balmy weather -- but it must have been slicker than it looks

    This is I-15 at the Northbound Kenwood On-Ramp. They have closed northbound traffic and taking them off the road.

    December 27, 2019

    I don't remember why the road was closed. Maybe an accident further up the hill?

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    Default East of Amboy on Route 66

    Route 66 heading east. This is about 1/3 mile beyond Roy's Cafe at Amboy.


    June 2019

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    Default Route 66 in 2019

    This is one of the photos that David Gomm captured in 2019.


    Route 66 near Cool Springs in Arizona

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    Default It Works Both Ways



    AZBuck

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    Default about 2 inches tall?

    AZBuck, where was that captured? And I guess the headline is another subtle query?

    The scale of the flowers would suggest that the statue is only about 2 inches tall?

    Thanks,

    mark

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