With the stink bugs, we seemed to have had more last year but there is quite a few trying to get in this year....One thing I did find out, last year when I brought my indoor plants in off the porch, the dreaded bugs had dug down in the dirt and when they got inside and the heat came on, out they came... We were also told, they would be gone after a frost, well, no luck, they just moved under ground or inside.... I also heard, these bugs were brought here to take care of the brown lady bugs...Not sure about that.... AND they do stink...They have a smell about them even when alive and if you kill them, oh my.....When we catch them in the house, we flush them or put them in a plastic bag and then put it in the garbage....Also, it's said, not to kill them because that smell with bring on more......... AND nothing gets rid of them.....

A solar powered nudibranch...Sulawesi Indonesia... I took this in Indonesia, Sulawesi, diving at about 60' during the day. They are rather see-through. Like a plant they photosensitize some of their food and also eat coral. This one is about 7" long. Sorta waddles when he walks, very floppy side to side as the ocean waves hit him. There were "2" of them, in a BIG hurry to get to where they were going and not get eaten as they crossed a rocky open expanse.

I love the lighthouse photos. Casey, that's a beautiful house beside the PEI lighthouse. Must be neat for the residents (especially children) to have a lighthouse in their back yard!

I desperately needed new waterproof garden boots and stumbled onto these at a local 'feed store' yesterday! called the Muck 'Scrub Boot', they're mid-height and seem super comfortable. I only wore them briefly to model. :)