Vile Weed!

If the Asian beetle is the most despised bug in our home, this weed is the most despised weed in the Clayton household.

Five points to anyone who can identify the weed. . . yes. . . the cockleburr. Vile weed, indeed!

Once you are snagged by a burr, you are done for!  A burr is designed to work its way into ever fiber of clothing that you are wearing.  A burr can turn up weeks after you think it was successfully removed.  Add three dogs into the mix and you have a disaster!  Hubby and I have spent many a winter evenings, cutting burrs out of the dogs' fur.  Not fun!

As you can see, I am still on my nature photo kick.  I am committing myself to using my 100mm f2.8 macro lens more often. (For all the non-photo folks, it is a lens which allows you to take spectacular close-ups, if you take the time to learn how to use the lens. The beetle image is a macro image.)

I love the images you can get with a macro, it just always seems to take so much time to turn out a tack sharp image!  (Think tripod).  As ridiculous as it sounds, I just do not have the patience to set my camera on a tripod.  Add to that the fact that I can never figure how the darned tripod works. . . Ugh!  But I am a woman on a 'macro' mission, so I may be dragging that tripod out of the closet very soon!