Even parasitic stuff is really cool! Especially the dog vomit fungus (which itself vomits all over itself [the yellow bits], you know, for effect, kind of like the dog returning to its own vomit – a good analogy of sin… yikes!)
The simplest flowers have a beauty that some of the more complicated flowers just can’t match.
As far as varmints go, well, here’s an update about the Brown Recluse spider bite: (update 1 June evening) IN DENIAL! Not good for a hermit: violins are playing
And here’s what’s left of a racoon after one rifle shot at about 150 yards by a seminarian. The racoon, mind you, was being very pesky. To see it, you’ll have to click the continue reading button. It really was a good shot. I would count it as right between the eyes: Continue reading
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
