One day on the sill

“It was like a surreal dream”
“Yeah, we were doing our normal patrol”
“All I heard was Ernest give a yell”

We all rushed over to where Marchin’ Mark was lying. Everyone tried to help. Someone was taking his pulse, someone started CPR, we all thought how would we cope without Marchin’ Mark out there getting us along on important missions.
The nest won’t be the same

We all wondered what could have happened. Later on the CSI unit will be on the scene to work out what may have happened. Sorry, I promised Lois I wouldn’t use acronyms. That is the Criminal Scientific Investigants

“Oh well we should take him back to the nest I guess”
“It’ll be a lot easier if we all pitch in.”
“Hey….did you hear that?”
“It came from further along the trail”

“Hey you lot.”
“Get over here.”
“We found the bloke who did Marchin” Mark in”
“We need a bit of help”

Not wanting to see anyone else get too hurt, a couple of the others came over. We should be able to hold him down if everyone grabs a piece.

We’ve got him now. He has to go you know. Once a killer always a killer and a poacher of gold. We were sure he had been hanging around this trail for a while now.

“I reckon he’s the bloke that took all of Josephs gold”
“and left him in a ditch on the side of the trail”
“The Queen will know what to do with him”
“Might be easier to take him back in pieces”

“That sounds like a plan”
“Grab a bit and lets go”
“Yeah, I’m building up a thirst”
“Let’s catch up at The Puddle On Step 3 bar”

At The Puddle On Step 3 bar what else would be on non-stop rotation. Anyone else want to have a dance?

Pick a Word – February 2023

Lost in Translation’s Thursdays Special: Pick a Word February 2023

Paula’s words for this month are so very good. I hope I can find a few unique things that you won’t expect.
All questions answered in the comments

Let’s go If you want have a listen as you ponder

BATTLING

EXTANT

GLOAMING

QUIDDITY

ROTATIONAL

A few F’s

Cee’s Mid-week Madness Challenge: April Alphabet – F at the beginning or end of a word

Fog

Begonia leaf

Fence

Figbird eating a Fig

Fighting ants

Leaf

Roof

Calf

Something is bugging me

Terri’s Sunday Stills: What’s #Bugging you?

I’ll tell you whats bugging me……….

Dragonflies

Flies

Butterflies

Bees

Ants

Praying Mantis

Spiders

Just bugs

Did you see it

The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146 – Focusing on the Details

Like all photographers I like to find a subject and get set to take the photograph doing all the usual things which becomes innate after a while. Position of the subject, rule of thirds perhaps, lighting, background noise and all those things that make your photo the fabulous one you want.

One thing I like is after the photo has been taken and you plug the camera in to download and get a surprise to find something else in the image while you were busy focusing on the detail. Lets see what we can find among these photos.

Did you see the insect before or after seeing the Dandelion?

I wonder if you saw the flower buds or the spider or the insects who may not have known the spider was there too first

Was your focus drawn to the flowers detail, the Native Stingless Bees or the tiny jumping spider?

Getting in close to focus on the detail

The yellow Alamanda flower or the Ghost Crab Spider first?

In among the Torch Ginger flower lurks another tiny spider

I was after a photo of the small Billy Bonkers Grevillea flower as the light was so good, I didn’t see the ants

Another ant on a flower that was missed until down loading

Did you see the leaf, verandah boards, butterfly wing or the ant moving the wing?

An ants work is hard going

I didn’t see the Dwarf Eastern Tree Frog as the water lily flower looked so good in the late afternoon light

Who was inside the flower?

I hope you enjoyed trying to find what can be found while you focus on the detail.

Connections

The word prompt from Frank at Dutch goes the Photo: Connections
I was wondering how many connections I could find.180418_blog challenge_fret_hands

 

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Small

The word prompt from Debbie at Twenty-four: Small

It is good to see that people are taking up Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge while she is on vacation. Thank you all.

A tiny Soft-shelled Snail
snail_soft shell_named_binna burra_april 2018

Whats smaller than ants
ants_black small_tree_lismore_named_june 2014

A lovely Line-blue Butterfly, about 15mm in size
line blue butterfly_named_binna burra_feb 2018

Hidden in the folds of a flower, a small Crab Spider waits for something smaller to drop by for a snack
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Stingless Native Bees having a feast on a Crocus flower
native bees_crocus_named_jan 2014

I love finding small fungi on my place
fungi small red_named_home_march 2017

A flower which is a big 10mm in diameter
yellow flower small_home_named_crop_dec 2014

Baby birds are cute especially in a small nest
fantail young01_nest_binna burra_named_small_nov 2014

The smallest Honeyeater, a Scarlet Honeyeater
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This is November: The Insects

The next part of This is November. I often find a few insects here and there. Some stay for the hello and can I take your photo, some just say g’day and off they go. These are the ones who stayed around…….

A couple of ants having a disagreement. I took this photo in the morning. The next morning, they were still there. If I touched anywhere near them, their antennae waved about furiously.
ants_fighting_named_binna burra_nov 2017

I have lots of Native Stingless Bees in my garden when there are yummy flowers about. This bloke has filled his pollen sacs from the Day Lily and is off back to the hive.
stingless native bee_named_home_nov 2017

The Gardenia flowers sent their scent into the house from the garden. No wonder the bees like it.
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The Crinum flower hosted many many Native Stingless Bees
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I found this beetle with a yellow love heart on its side wandering about a bush full of flowers when I was walking about in town.
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I love this beetle. The vine it is eating is a new vigorous introduced weed on my place.
beetle_named_home_nov 2017

I love the bee trying to hide from me on the Paperbark flower.
bee_paperbark flower_named_home_nov 2017

Cats Whiskers is a fabulous flower which the bees also love.
bee02_cats whiskers flower_named_binna burra_nov 2017

“Let’s see if there is any more pollen in here”
bee01_cats whiskers flower_named_binna burra_nov 2017

A Common Crow Butterfly was having a rest from the heat of the day.
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I have a series of Orchard Swallowtail Butterflies. Wonderful large butterflies
orchard swallowtail butterfly_named_binna burra_nov 2017