Road of Peas

The Spider with Spider picture is coming in at number three these days. It’s been the champion hotlinked image for long periods of time. This would be a great tshirt picture but I worry about the resolution. It’s at full res, having been a tiny part of the original image, and I had to work at it for it to look as good as it does. I’ll hold off on that.

It’s been getting hits today from yahoo answers where Gabby has supplied the link in answer to what do spiders really look like?

Here is the Middle-Fork Spiders Archive, the original post, a crude list of hotlinks, and the access log [19/Nov/2006:17:56:21 -0800] - [14/Jan/2008:10:30:17 -0800]

Thanks everyone!

Bonus Tracks, two other pictures from the same encounter:

This picture is currently the fifth most hotlinked image. The rose was out front. I removed the fence in the background and moved the wilted rose into the crop. I have mixed feelings about that: I like to capture time but this is a bit heavy handed.Someone at Forum of Brilliant Women pirated the image, cut the old rose out, made it into a jpg, and posted it. It’s not there any more, there don’t seem to be any images now.

I don’t like the theft, but the crop is good, and I’ve done the same with the image I’ve put up for sale at the Middle-Fork Store. I also built a basic cafepress shop named An Orange Rose while trying to figure out what’s possible. I’ll leave it in place. New image additions will only live the Middle-Fork Store.

Here is the Middle-Fork Orange Rose Archive, the original post, a crude list of hotlinks, and the access log [19/Nov/2006:17:56:21 -0800] - [14/Jan/2008:10:30:17 -0800]

Thanks everyone!

This picture of A Drop of Water continues to be my most widely hotlinked image. It is second to the Red Rose and Rain Water picture in number of hits.

There are four previous Hotlinking the Vegetable posts talking about activity, one that mentions this image, and two which match the search incorrectly.

I’ve started a cafepress shop named Drop of Water where cards, shirts, and coffee mugs emblazoned with the Drop of Water can be purchased. I received examples in the mail today, and they look pretty good. Good enough that I will start uploading lots of pictures, and seeing about customizing the look and feel of the store.

This picture inspired the Middle-Fork Water Archive.

Here is the access log [15/Nov/2006:20:22:58 -0800] - [11/Jan/2008:20:02:35 -0800].

Here is a crude list of hotlinkers.

Thanks to everyone!

This picture is the current hotlink champion clocking in at about 200 hits a day. Scanning the Crude Hotlink Summary it looks like there are 20+ sources. Most of the tagged pages are some casanova leaving flowers for dozens of sweeties. And then bunches of email hotlinks. This could be one hotlink or hundreds of hotlinks - I don’t know how to figure it out.

I had noticed that the Middle-Fork Water Archive was the link returned for searches for A Drop of Water, and resolved add to the archive by capturing the morning leftovers of our recent night time rains. This rosebush is one of a dozen in my front yard. One morning I found this delightful scene, and managed to arrange a tripod without upsetting things.

It is also in the Middle-Fork Flowers 2007 Archive.

Here is the The original Red Rose and Rain Water post and The access log [19/Sep/2007:00:11:11 -0700] - [08/Jan/2008:12:00:55 -0800]

Thanks Everyone!

We have a couple dozen rose bushes in our yard, and as winter faded they became infested with aphids. I went down to Gray’s Garden Center and came home with a cast of thousands. (See the first photo is the Middle-Fork Ladybugs Archive.) In all honesty, I was more interested in taking pictures than getting rid of the aphids, and so I sought out the best lit most populous spots and dumped a few hundred ladybugs right on top of them. This is not the recommended procedure for efficacy in aphid elimination.

The fig tree was also infested, and provided the big green background for this picture.

KSR Kingworth has been so kind as to post this picture with a credit Lady Bugs do a lot of Good at her blog, which appears to be only named visually. Very cool.

This picture has been hotlinked in a few other spots. Here is its list of hotlinks from a few weeks ago: dLadybugEatsAphid.html

Thanks KSR Kingworth!

This has been a good year for pictures of the Sugar Maple in our front yard. I’ve been home during all parts of the day, and the rain and wind didn’t leave the tree shorn of glory. Last year the tree was totally red for a few busy days, and then the rain laid it bare.
Our Maple Tree Middle-Fork Archive
NEWSLANG posts this picture under the caption
A Cold and Wet November Drama at Nexopia.

Thanks NEWSLANG!

Horacio has used the Angel Cloud as wallpaper on his profile page.
This really works, I like the effect a lot. I had just fallen over in the forest, and was wishing the ground was as soft as the clouds looked.

Horacio hotlinked this picture on 12 July, 4 short days after I posted it. Here is the Clouds 2007 in which it appears.
Thanks Horacio!

Arkan is using this picture as wallpaper at his Sheezyart.com Profile. This looks like a pretty cool place, I’ll have to check it out further. Arkan is”an aspiring sprite comic author.”

This picture is almost totally obscured, but he had searched for “leaves” and was diligent enough to work through more result pages than I to find just exactly the right leaves to border his page, and so this is cool. I salute your aesthetic stamina, and refined clarity of vision!

Thanks, Arkan!