Second post for this Sunday: International Rock Flipping Day

I found out over on 10,000 Birds that today is International Rock Flipping Day and I had the best of intentions to flip a rock but due to "extenuating" circumstances I had to settle for flipping something else: we have set aside a part of our property where we store items we hope to use one day, in this case some terracotta "found object" drainage pipes with fluted ends that will be used in an outdoor garden room. Go here to see the ever expanding Flickr set of all participants.
Here's the latest list:
Pohanginapete (Pohangina Valley, Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Blaugustine (London, England)
Nature Remains (Ohio, USA)
Pensacola Daily Photo (Florida, USA)
KatDoc’s World (Ohio, USA)
Notes from the Cloud Messenger (Ontario, Canada)
Brittle Road (Dallas, Texas)
Sherry Chandler (Kentucky, USA)
osage + orange (Illinois, USA)
Rock Paper Lizard (British Columbia, Canada)
The Crafty H (Virginia, USA)
Chicken Spaghetti (Connecticut, USA)
A Passion for Nature (New York, USA)
The Dog Geek (Virginia, USA)
Blue Ridge blog (North Carolina, USA)
Bug Girl’s Blog (Michigan, USA)
chatoyance (Austin, Texas)
Riverside Rambles (Missouri, USA)
Pines Above Snow(Maryland, USA)
Beth’s stories (Maine, USA)
A Honey of an Anklet (Virginia, USA)
Wanderin’ Weeta (British Columbia, Canada)
Fate, Felicity, or Fluke (Oregon, USA)
The Northwest Nature Nut (Oregon, USA)
Roundrock Journal (Missouri, USA)
The New Dharma Bums (California, USA)
The Marvelous in Nature (Ontario, Canada)
Via Negativa (Pennsylvania, USA)
Mrs. Gray’s class, Beatty-Warren Middle School (Pennsylvania, USA)
Cicero Sings (British Columbia, Canada)
Pocahontas County Fair (West Virginia, USA)


This morning I rolled one of them over and immediately, two small moths flew out. Now I know what they do during the day. I was very surprised not to see lots of creeping, crawling insect activity, just one lone ant.


Instead I saw winged critters, like this golden fly...

or this spider hiding under a leaf.