Some of my Maypops (P. incarnata) were stripped too but too many vines climbing up trees to escape/hide from the Fritillary caterpillars.

Now if I knew what was eating birch leaves. Oh well, I am not going to worry about birch trees.

What are these caterpillars on a birch leaf?

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I wonder if this is Passiflora caerulea? Passion flowers are quite spectacular in bloom.

Fall Creek Falls is near Spencer from one side and Pikeville on the other side. Burgess Falls is between Sparta and Cookeville and is spectacular. Cummins Falls is another great falls north of Cookeville but there was a flash flood a few years back and seems like a couple of people drowned during that. One of my favorites is Rock Island near McMinnville.

Looks like Hypericum (St. John's Wort). Not Passiflora (passion fruit) and definitely not Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syricacus)

The little buggers hide under leaves so it is so easy getting stung but fortunately their numbers are rather small.

Maybe half an inch long (back in 2009)


No wonder they hurt so much


I removed the leaf it was on for its photo shoot that day


this is what I saw from the top side of a leaf in 2014


But under the leaf is where the little monsters lurk

Their sting turns to a burning sensation and stays for a long time (been a while but I want to think it lasts an hour or longer). I hate their sting but they are so interesting to photograph that I no longer smash them but go get the camera.

The build is different between Canon and Yongnuo but the price difference is a game changer. Do take out batteries in both models as they can seep and corrode the metal contacts.

The Yongnuo manual is a little harder to read but try every setting to feel comfortable using the Yongnuo flashes.

I move mine to a corner of the screen. Not disappeared but out of the way. I turn off my sensitive pad when a mouse is present too as that is the most annoying thing (until you have no mouse).

FedEx is never on time, usually a day or two later than they say "It's out for delivery". It doesn't matter if it is B&H or Canon (I did both this year). It is aggravating to sit at the house and fume about when will it arrive. Then when they deliver the next day (one time was 8:30 PM in the dark), they don't ring the doorbell or knock on the door but just put the package on the front porch and leave. GRRR!

Lee has a ring you attach to the front of the bracket for a 105 mm CPL filter. I gave up on buying Lee's CPL since they were always out of stock so bought a Heliopan (over $400 at the time). That was worthless as a little pressure on the CPL pops the entire bracket off the lens ring. GRRR! I wrote to Lee about this and sent the bracket and Heliopan CPL to Lee's rep in California. A couple of weeks later I got it back and he said it was all good but it did the same thing. I gave up using the CPL and don't use the filter system that often these years. I think the bracket should lock on to the ring nice and tight so it won't pop off so easily.

I think you may be off by a factor of ten? It should be 0.029 feet or 0.36 inches.

I gave away my old Ni-Cad cordless drills (Porter-Cable) as the replacement batteries were almost as much as a new drill set over 15 years ago.

Then I went with Ridgid (not Rigid but it certainly seems that way when I first bought them as the extra D in there was not registering with me) with the better Ni-MH (this was a Xmas bundled multi tool set with 3 batteries and dual charger). Well, eventually every one of those batteries died on me. Instead of chunking those I held on to them and read about getting the batteries to recharge using a 9 volt battery - enough to make the charger think the battery was chargeable.

I bought a Ryobi Li-ion drill set because I needed to fix a mail box post on the next street. This went for a while but eventually those batteries died too. I went on Amazon and bought generic batteries for that drill at half the price.

Hmm, let me check out batteries for my old Ridgid tool set. They have them in Li-ion too? Now we are talking. I bought two and a new charger just in case. They work great and didn't cost me much at all. Even the old charger works with the Li-ion batteries.

The brushless Ryobi compared to the brushed Ridgid set has some advantages as well - more efficient, less maintenance, and no motor smell.

My latest acquisitions are the 56V EGO lawn tools including a lawn mower. So far, so good. The one thing I don't like is there is no battery status - just blinking red when it is close to dying, green otherwise. I cannot imagine using a corded chainsaw, hedger, or lawnmower these days.

That is what I did for my last two cameras and very satisfied. A lot, lot less than the RRS L brackets I used to buy.

This seems the most plausible. The first click could be mirror lockup if the OP has that function enabled, second open shutter, third close shutter and return mirror.

I gave up on B&H so went straight to Canon and ordered it and the 800 f/11. Got them the next week.