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Similar to clouds, it's easy to imagine objects from the patterns on their backs and for some reason, this one made me think of the villainess from the movie, "101 Dalmatians", which I never saw in its entirety, but when I was a kid, my cousins would sometimes call a mean person by that name. Seems like a fitting name for the shape on this one's back. You can even see her cigarette if you look carefully. No cigarette holder, though.

We found 6 or 8 of these spiders and every one of them was "bums up", making it impossible to get a good shot of their heads. I actually sat on the ground for this shot and even tried using live view and putting the camera on the ground, but still couldn't get the head. I suppose that's just as well, though, because their heads are probably ugly.

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To those of you who won't be around tomorrow: Merry Christmas!

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HPPT!

Oh, I just realized this is my second Flickr anniversary. Happy Anniversary, me! It's been a blast! And thank you all, for your views, comments, faves, and invites! And to all my friends that I've met here on Flickr, thank you for being who you are. I love all of you! Even the one that dumped me and made me feel like the mop on the Swiffer commercial. ;-)

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Explore #306, 9/3/09.

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I changed the photo that I posted at the last moment, because I wanted to share an incredible video that I found out about last night and this one is much more appropriate to it than the one that I was going to post.

This image is dedicated to my South African friend Ilse, who was recently married to Robert Louden (whom she met here on Flickr, I think). Congratulations, Ilse and Robert!

You may have already seen this video, since it has over 5,000,000 views, and I had seen the first part, prior to last night, but I hadn't realized that there was a second part. I just love this, but you might have to be old, like me, to appreciate it. ;-)

Perpetuum Jazzile - Africa

I like this group so much that I stayed up late last night, playing their videos over and over again. Here are a couple more of my favorites.

Bee Gees Medley

Mas Que Nada

Where the heck is Slovenia, anyway?

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