Showing posts with label for scale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label for scale. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2011

Spring Peeper

During a Fall 2008 visit to Massachusetts, Mr. Hunter made the acquaintance of a spring peeper.


The peeper took a brief detour into a cup -- just so my cousin could examine him for a few minutes; then the frog hopped out and scooted away.

Massachusetts
September 2008

Friday, February 4, 2011

Citrus Mystery

Mr. Hunter's family has an orange tree that seems to be growing two different kinds of citrus fruit -- without any grafting! 

A tree guy (as in, a man hired to trim trees) told us that both kinds of fruits were oranges.  We sliced open one of the peculiar citrus giants to see if it tasted like an orange.  Nope.  And it didn't taste like a grapefruit either.  Mysterious...

Mr. Hunter poses with one of the mutant oranges and a regular, yummy orange.

 The oranges and "oranges" on their tree.

They seem to share the same trunk, though it splits into two big trunks close to the ground.

What's the deal?

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Mr. Hunter, Jr sizes up a baby frog

More travels with Allyson...


Allyson reports, "I was in the campsite bathroom and needed something to show scale -- and luckily MHJ was right there in my bag!"
Northern Territory, Australia
May 2006