Needle ice, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_ice:
“Needle ice is a needle-shaped column of ice formed by groundwater. Needle ice forms when the temperature of the soil is above 0 °C (32 °F) and the surface temperature of the air is below 0 °C (32 °F). Liquid water underground rises to the surface by capillary action, and then freezes and contributes to a growing needle-like ice column. The process usually occurs at night when the air temperature reaches its minimum.”
Tremella, I think, a type of jelly fungus.
A feather on our front lawn, a-misted with dew.
It’s so annoying that I didn’t get the tree on the left fully into the photo.
Woolly Alder aphid, Prociphilus tessellatus:
I apologize for so many photos, but just a little.
Time exposure with the reflection of the sun.
Lasioglossum, subgenus Dialictus
Proctotrupidae wasps.
From BugGuide:
Identification
Antennae with 13 segments
Terminal abdominal segment narrow, elongated, and down-curved in many species
Non metallic. Often black, sometimes red.
Forewing with large stigma, beyond which is a very small marginal cell.
Parasitoids of beetle larvae, fungus gnats
Cryptinae, I think.
Is this Diapriidae? EDIT: Probably not. That appears to be a stigma on the wing, in which case it’s likely to be another Proctotrupidae.
Agelenopsis. Note the distended palps. That’s a male mating with the female.
Perhaps Mangora
Mangora placida
Sergiolus in Gnaphosidae.
Leucauge venusta
Stunning mosquito! Or gnat.
a little wild 