It HATCHED!
We had this Praying Mantis Egg case, and all of us had given up on it really. Because some of them in the store were hatchingthe day I bought this one so we started to believe that ours was among those that had hatched already. But today, it hatched! We have baby mantises! Or mantii... or whatever the plural of a Praying Mantis is... about 150 of them I think. At least 100. I took a picture of them in the jar before releasing them in our yard. (Yes there are wild mantises here, we're not introducing anything that wasn't here already.) Quite impressive, all those babies at once! We didn't see them actually coming out of the case. Just saw them after it happened. I have read that they all come out all at once, and they must have because this morning there were none, and then I got up from my computer as I walked by the jar it was full of them!
Yes yes, I know, you want to see the picture and not listen to my babbling on endlessly. Alright then...
I know it's not the best picture in the world but I don't have a very good camera. This is the best of 6 shots I took. You can kinda see how many there are in there. Quite fascinating.
And yes, I apologize for not posting to my blog more often lately. I have been VERY busy, working on both games simultaneously (mostly working on drawing models for DawnTide) and not had time enough to stop and write a post. I've been drawing fairly non-stop since last week, and feel like I have a tremendous distance yet to go before we get to a point where I feel like I've contributed anything much to DawnTide. Wiz has put together a team of enthusiastic volunteers, and is coordinating the progress of Dawntide quite impressively. I'm honored to be on the team.
Also last week, a friend of ours (Obsey) donated server space and his time to help us set up the FTP & Web server and keep it running. So now we have our official website for Visions up and available for viewing! Very exciting things happening! We hope to be adding an IRC server and Forums in the near future as well.
So those of you reading my blog for updated news on the game, stay tuned, and bookmark the new website! It's official now! www.visionsgame.com
Blessings to you.
-Sparkling