When I saw Aino’s panel for today’s Värikollaasit I immediately thought of the back of a bee’s body (another chance to use the word “gaster”!). The stripes are often so well defined and in the right kinds of brown. Add aubergine coloured flowers (or close to aubergine coloured) and the colour collage almost put itself together.
While taking pictures of almond blossoms that have erupted (that’s what it feels like) during the last week I noticed that the trees were buzzing with honey bees and bumble bees. Then I noticed a shadow overhead and I saw a stork flying west. A … Continue reading Not just flora
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Pick a Shape
Thursday Trios
Still reviewing my archive. Thursday Trios
Currently housebound I can hope for a White Christmas (highly unlikely according to the weather firecasts). But I can look at my photos of last January. for the snow Otherwise it’s the smaller motives I was most drawn to this year. Lens-Artists Challenge #329: Last … Continue reading Last not Least
Great cabbage white and vervain Bee on daisy and bee on daisy star Cape gooseberry, caught Smoketree plume on the beach and damselfly on another damselfly Maple wings on snow Small cabbage white on clover Lens-Artists Challenge #300: Delicate
Three Congo chafer beetles. They looked so pretty in their enclosure. Checking up on their English name I learned that they are often kept as food for terrarium animals. (Yes, I know that the iguanas and lizards and monitors need food, too, but putting the food on display … Continue reading Nine Crawleys, Not Creepy
They are really too late in the year. I enjoy the temperatures but with a guilty conscience – it shouldn’t be that warm.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Macro or Close up
Wordless Wednesday
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