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Field Cricket helping fix the lawnmower by Anita363

Field Cricket helping fix the lawnmower

We were fixing the lawnmower when this cute little cricket happened by. I said, "Ooh, let me get my camera," and my husband said, "Oh no you don't! C'mon, focus! And I don't mean with a camera, either." So I popped him into the ziploc holding some of my sockets while we finished with the lawnmower, he picked out this 14mm 6-point socket as a nice hiding place, and here he is. Field Cricket, Gryllus sp. -- nymph, 10 mm long. Adults reach 15-25 mm (up to 1"). www.flickr.com/photos/anitagould/3731288844/in/photostream/ is a better shot of the bug, showing the texture on his back.

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Uploaded on Jul 17, 2009

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Field Cricket helping fix the lawnmower by Anita363

Field Cricket helping fix the lawnmower

We were fixing the lawnmower when this cute little cricket happened by. I said, "Ooh, let me get my camera," and my husband said, "Oh no you don't! C'mon, focus! And I don't mean with a camera, either." So I popped him into the ziploc holding some of my sockets while we finished with the lawnmower, he picked out a 14mm 6-point socket as a nice hiding place, and here he is. Field Cricket, Gryllus sp. -- nymph, 10 mm long. Adults reach 15 ? 25 mm (up to 1"). I love his texture in the sunlight. Better large.

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Uploaded on Jul 17, 2009

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DSC02073 by Anita363

DSC02073

Tattered remnants of the violent squall in the fading sunset, with blue sky beyond.

We are not in Tornado Alley here in central NJ, and most certainly are not accustomed to this sort of weather. It felt like it dropped ~20 deg. F as this front came through. I haven't yet found actual temperature data (pointers welcome) -- but I did find www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/090626_rpts.html. You can see this very squall on the national map, as a line of blue points through central NJ; and the text report lists Middlesex County, NJ: "NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY, ESPECIALLY A LINE FROM WOODBRIDGE TO OLD BRIDGE." What's more, this same storm system spawned a tornado in CT (the red dot on the map), very rare for this part of the country. It was on all the evening news programs.

Despite the close brush with violence, we never got more than a smattering of raindrops from this storm. The brunt of it must have hit just a couple of miles east of here.

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Uploaded on Jul 16, 2009

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Aftermath by Anita363

Aftermath

The trailing edge of the violent squall passes off to the left, mammatocumulus clouds giving way to a deceptively ordinary sunset.

We are not in Tornado Alley here in central NJ, and most certainly are not accustomed to this sort of weather. It felt like it dropped ~20 deg. F as this front came through. I haven't yet found actual temperature data (pointers welcome) -- but I did find www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/090626_rpts.html. You can see this very squall on the national map, as a line of blue points through central NJ; and the text report lists Middlesex County, NJ: "NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY, ESPECIALLY A LINE FROM WOODBRIDGE TO OLD BRIDGE." What's more, this same storm system spawned a tornado in CT (the red dot on the map), very rare for this part of the country. It was on all the evening news programs.

Despite the close brush with violence, we never got more than a smattering of raindrops from this storm. The brunt of it must have hit just a couple of miles east of here.

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Uploaded on Jul 16, 2009

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Mammatus at sunset by Anita363

Mammatus at sunset

Yes, that's exactly what the color looked like. Getting later, and the mammatus becoming sparser and less organized, the most violent part of the storm having passed. Almost starting to look like a sunset, rather than like an alien planet.

We are not in Tornado Alley here in central NJ, and most certainly are not accustomed to this sort of weather. It felt like it dropped ~20 deg. F as this front came through. I haven't yet found actual temperature data (pointers welcome) -- but I did find www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/090626_rpts.html. You can see this very squall on the national map, as a line of blue points through central NJ; and the text report lists Middlesex County, NJ: "NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY, ESPECIALLY A LINE FROM WOODBRIDGE TO OLD BRIDGE." What's more, this same storm system spawned a tornado in CT (the red dot on the map), very rare for this part of the country. It was on all the evening news programs.

Despite the close brush with violence, we never got more than a smattering of raindrops from this storm. The brunt of it must have hit just a couple of miles east of here.

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Uploaded on Jul 15, 2009

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