CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

They do. A camera bag is a dark place. This one made me drop the lens it was sitting on. No, I didn't get bit. Of course, I was shaking, so most of the pictures I took straight after were blurred. This, one though, seems to indicate it might have been some kind of wolf spider. Unfortunately, these were the best I could do. We did get a vague measurement - my son held the ruler - so this one wasn't terribly big. But it was annoyed at being herded by a ruler and photographed.

Yeah, I know... it's a bit delayed. I only managed to read one book in October this year:

Well, we’ve had a couple of hectic months over here, which resulted in a late release and not a lot of writing. No writing was achieved in October or the first half of November. I have also been undertaking NaNoWriMo, but as the dust of finishing work and completing the university year has settled, I have been making some adjustments. I will not complete NaNo this year. That does not, however, mean I have not been writing. Achievements for the last week are as follows: Overview New words produced: 18,082 Old words revised: 63,492 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 7 (1 collection, 2 short works for inclusion in future collections, 4 short stand-alone works which will also be incorporated in future collections) Covers created: 0 Works published: 1 (1 release platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 301 Publishing Tasks Created 3 blog posts for this blog; Created 2 blog posts for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog; Published 365 D

An early morning walk helps you find so many things. I first saw this white-faced heron wading down a culvert at dusk. This time, I saw it by a small lake: And then it flew past a cattle egret on the way to new fishing grounds.  Where it settled down enough to allow me some zoomed-in shots. You can find out more about the white-faced heron at the following sites: http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Egretta-novaehollandiae; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-faced_heron; http://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/white-faced-heron; http://www.arkive.org/white-faced-heron/egretta-novaehollandiae/; http://www.wildlifewalkabout.com/profiles.htm; http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/?base=17061.