Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie
Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 December 2015

Sunday Selections #254

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files.
 
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
 
Like River I usually run with a theme.  This week?  Things which have made me smile.


The first two photos belong to the youngest of my brothers.  He volunteers each week at our local zoo.  A LOT of the work he does is essentially shovelling shit.  However he also gets some very big rewards.  This week he shared his shift with a baby ring-tailed lemur.  His smile says it all.


   
I am happy for him, but I am also more than a little jealous.  That baby is just gorgeous.  I am particularly taken with its toes...  (embiggen and you will see what I mean.  sooooo cute.)

Our cacti are flowering.  Which always pleases me.

Tiny red flowers.



Those tiny flowers in close up.

The night flowering cactus is also in bloom.  The flowers are huge (about eight or nine inches across).  It is scented, and the blooms last just one day.

     




 The silk tree is also in flower.  Lots and lots of delicate blooms.  Which were visited by a butterfly.





 I am really very lucky.  Which I mostly remember.





Sunday, 25 January 2015

Sunday Selections #208

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. 

The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

Like River I usually run with a theme. This week it is the Orchard Swallowtail butterfly (I think) which captured my interest.  Jewel who considers herself a mighty hunter wanted it too.  Fortunately she was thwarted.  Again.








Ephemeral magic.

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Sunday Selections #117

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. 

The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.

Like River I generally run with a theme.  Just a couple of photos today.  This butterfly was being buffetted around by our wind - but is very, very beautiful.  And I hope All Consuming drops by, because I know she has a weakness for them.

I am pretty certain that this is an Orchard Butterfly, not popular with  Citrus farmers because the diet of the larvae includes cultivated citrus trees.  Another 'fact' which I found amazing is that the males can be territorial and will chase anything black and white that enters their territory - including magpies!!!