My photos for ‘Vibrant’ are from my garden and the fields behind….
Ah little red beetle!
Here…who’s that sneaking a ride in there?
My oh my Mr. Grasshopper….you are tiny tiny tiny!
So….growing out of a wall eh?
Mmmm mmmm!
To join in with this challenge…visit this link:-
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/a-word-a-week-challenge-vibrant/
That’s All!
See Ya xx
Some lovely curvy nasturtiums from my garden….
And That’s All for today as my son is arriving back from New Zealand in an hour and ~I haven’t seen him for THREE years!!
So See Ya xx
Just look at these peacock butterfly caterpillars….
There isn’t anything straight about them…..
They’re all curves!
They’re very friendly these little peacock butterfly caterpillars!
Still all curvy and bendy!
I think they’re trying to spell out a word!!
Ahhh…cute!
That’s All!
See Ya xx
Curves from both inanimate and animate objects for my contribution to the challenge of ‘curves’.
“Hup we go…wonder what’s for dinner!” puffed Alistair Alsatian!
“And down we go….wonder what’s for dinner?” said Alistair continuing his train of thought!
“La la la…wonder what’s for dinner?” thought Andrew as he took off!
“Ooh that’s quite high….wonder what’s for dinner?” said Andrew as he reached the pinnacle of his jump!
“Must be nearly dinner time by now!”
“Mmmmm hungry!”
“I reckon my dinner is in that large and slightly curvy cotton reel in the forefront of this photo!” said Alistair in a highly observant way!
That’s All!
See Ya xx
Ailsa from ‘Where’s my backpack’ has set Flow as the travel theme this week.
Here’s the link to her blog…
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/06/14/travel-theme-flow/
Walking along the canal today I came across some baby moorhens who were climbing about on a part submerged tree.
“People are often shocked by my feet, because they are very large. But here on the canal they help me hold on, to a tree when faced with a barge!” sang Marcus Moorhen gustily!
“And now I’m feeling sleepy, my eyelids are starting to close. I’d better get back to the water, and swim for a while I suppose!” crooned Marcus!
So down the branch he went…..
“Tum te Tum….Here I come!”
“Sniff the tree, hee hee hee!”
“Ready to leap, chirrup chirrup cheep!”
“Shall I go with the flow? Nah I don’t think so!” said Marcus on feeling the cold chill of the canal!
Well he did eventually get in the water!
That’s All!
See Ya xx
Oh but he was singing so beautifully and so loudly I was drawn away from the digging at the allotment to search for him….
“The greatest thing to do on an evening like this is to SING SING SING!” chirped Charlie Chaffinch.
But what about the chard you may ask….well here it is….
No colour fiddling-that’s how it really looks!
That’s All!
See Ya xx
“Well,” I thought to myself, “What could be more fleeting than the life of the poor Mayfly??”
Look….
Here’s one, Marvin Mayfly, who has landed exhausted on some rather pretty foliage!
Now, you may wonder how I know he’s a male mayfly (apart from his name of course!)…but I know because he has really big eyes and his front legs are long! That’s what the boy mayflies look like! They need their eyes and their arms like that so that they can locate and hold on to the female mayflies easily!
They swarm on a few days in…yes, you’ve guessed…..May!
They dash around, having emerged from the river, all of a dither in a desperate rush to find a partner and to mate!
After all, some of them only have an hour before they kark it!
Not a long life you see, well the airbourne life isn’t long, apparently as they can live in the ‘naiad’ phase under water for several months!
Here’s another tired out mayfly…
Now I don’t want to seem like too much of an expert, but this is definitely a lady mayfly! Small eyes and short front legs!
Another interesting fact:
Their mouth parts are vestigial as they only need to mate! (I wish my mouth parts were vestigial sometimes!)
and….
Their digestive system is filled with air! (So is mine sometimes, though sadly it’s mostly filled with food!)
This next chappie has decided to rest upon my friend….
Now he really is a male, Morgan Mayfly I think…just look at the length of his arms and the size of his eyes!!
That’s All!
See Ya xx
Now then…one of my first posts on WordPress was about lupins. It told of, firstly, my love of the dear and lovely lupin. It then told of the rashness of trying to split one in two!! Sad dying lupin days!
Now I have some rather nice and quite well established ones (that I haven’t tried to split!) which are coming into flower.
‘HORRORS!’ I screamed when taking a close inspection….for there, in bright green cheek, was a colony of flaming aphids!
Okey dokey…out with the camera and just look at the little blighters….
See my perfect beginnings of lupin…..
….and see those rather ugly, yet somehow fascinating aphids!
Look a little closer…..can you see those strange stumps sticking out of their backs?
LOOK!
One aphid website (yes, there is such a place!!) said these were called ‘Siphunculus’!
Another site (yes, there was another site!!) said they were ‘cornicles’….
…but whatever they are called apparently they secrete (such a rude word!) defensive fluid!
So they are the ones with no wings, but a few DO have wings and, yes, you’ve guessed it, there were some of those as well!
See him?
This is how my lupins should be looking…
No blemish or insect in sight!
And look at the colour it’s going to be…so pretty!
However, all I’m going to say is, soon they will be no more!
(The evil cackle was heard ringing through the wilds of Bedfordshire as the mad and possessive crazy woman did some ecologically unfriendly spraying!!)
That’s All!
See Ya xx
This week’s Travel Theme, provided by Ailsa over at ‘Where’s my backpack?’ is “Peaceful”.
Here’s the link….
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/06/07/travel-theme-peaceful/
Peace in a silent fire….
And this is how our allotment looked after my pyromaniac session!
That’s All!
See Ya xx
Nature reflects our lives-sometimes in a faster time frame, sometimes in a slower one.
Ooh yes I could be feeling philosophical, but worry ye not…it won’t last long!
Take the dandelion, big old glorious yellow flowered plant, followed by a delicate and beautiful seed head.
But even the dandelion has to give up its seeds to the wind….
Fleeting…..
That’s All!
See Ya xx
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