new lesson

So the last three-ish days were several shades of awful. I came home for the weekend and realized one evening that I had forgotten to refill a certain prescription of mine. Oh well, I thought.

I enjoyed a nice meal with the fam - peach pie included - and went to bed feeling slightly sick. My brain filled with flashing images of the overly-long photo shoot I did that day, I - stayed up pretty much all night, excepting 2-3 hours. I drove back to the house, and spent the rest of that afternoon nauseated and exhausted - literally staring at details in my wallpaper. It got bad enough at 1 a.m. that I had my parents come pick me up and take me home again, where I weathered another day of the same until, finally, around 3:30, Mom came home with the blessed prescription. I hadn't eaten (or kept down) much of anything for about 2 days.

I had a hunch, the night my parents came to pick me up, that I should check out Google to see if my situation was at all pill-related. Google was replete with links warning you not to "abruptly stop" taking this drug, for "nausea, vomiting and sleeplessness" will occur. Exactly my symptoms. Lesson learned.

We worried that now I that I had the drug, whether I'd be able to keep it down, but by the grace of God (or something like it) I managed to and am back to a hesitant normalcy. I actually have energy to do things mentally like read, things requiring more staring at the wall. My stomach no longer feels like it has marbles in it. Yay hooray.

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I told myself I was too sick of taking pictures to do any editing, but... can I help myself? No, not really. This is a little baby monarch caterpillar that was doing some serious chowing when I spotted it on a milkweed plant.



The plant had several stalks chewed to the nubs - so cute. There was a second, much much fatter caterpillar (like that rhythm - fatter caterpillar) chilling on a milkweed nearby - he never really moved and seemed unfazed by my presence, unlike the little guy who would hide. He really, really seemed to want to live. (Figuring how I spotted several monarch -butterflies- in that same area, it seemed he had some ground to catch up on!!)

Speaking of chewed plants...



The work of grasshoppers along the edge of our property. The whole tree, such as it was, was like that.

Here's some stuff from the nitty gritty, when I waded in a small pond (and thankfully nothing bit me):



So many drowned sunflowers in the water - seemed beautiful in a kind of morbid way. You think of Ophelia from Hamlet, committing suicide in a river, surrounded by flowers.





The second-to-last one is of the -reflection- of a normal sunflower in the water.

It really was fun - although I luckily spotted a medium-sized spider in his web to the side, and managed to get a good macro of another, muchmuch smaller one on a leaf. Teeming with life, as they say, and all that.

My leg in the sweltering pool (I don't know why sweltering - it just seemed like a good word):

That's probably enough for pictures. Ciao.