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08-14-2012 "The last drops on my skin..."
The day is coming... I can see the glow of the sun trying to break through the clouds in the East. Yet the life is escaping me and I feel weak and everything gets a bit darker by the minute.
My skin is wet with the night's dew... so fresh! Yet I cannot drink anymore. It will evaporate with the first rays of the sun, but I will not be here to feel it.
The day is starting... and my life is ending.
08-01-2012 "Hidden Singer"
Rains came late this year, but when they came, the evening concerts picked their pace up quite quickly. It is a bad time for dogs, as they need to be kept safe at home during the night, otherwise they would definitely wind up severely ill from contact with our night singers.
These little toads are not very noisy, but they do sing when they feel hidden enough from prying human eyes. This one here was not very fast to hide, so it gave me a chance to take a few pictures through the grass.
Very serious looking guy, I think he was not very happy to be interrupted.
07-31-2012 "Bold"
Sometimes we need to forget about our limitations and do what needs to be done. Most people will shrink from challenges not because they think the challenge is too big, but because they think too little of themselves.
We need to be like this scarab: barely an inch long, it would not face away from a massive creature several hundred times larger than him and with a strange, light emiting artifact.
This time it was just me, and no harm would come to this little friend on my watch, but I am sure the reaction to any menace would have been the same: "bring it on!"
Next time we are faced by a challenge, we would do well to remember this little guy.
07-19-2012 "Unexpected..."
Beauty can be found anywhere and anytime: you just have to keep an eye out for it. Today I was thinking about getting a picture of a moth, since I find them quite beautiful. My luck, however, would dictate I would find this little beauty instead.
As I have said before, beauty is relative and I find this nocturnal butterfly quite beautiful. This time it was also unexpected, as I had set my sights in something else entirely.
I guess that the lesson learned here is that we need to keep our mind open so it can perceive alternatives. If we set our sights into something and do not allow for alternatives, we will miss out on many good things.
07-15-2012 "Memories..."
The way our memory seems to work is about the same way the spider web works when it traps little water drops in the light rain: some things catch on and stay for a while and some hit stay for a moment and then go away. Eventually, all will fade.
What is really different is that we have one significant advantage: If we want, we can recall our memories, and will be able to do so with little effort most of the time. The problem with that is that we also catch bad stuff from time to time, and that is also easy to remember.
Since we cannot control what we trap in our "memory web" the easiest thing to do is to make the most out of the positive things and try to learn what we can from the bad ones.
06-27-2012 "Little river..."
When it rains as it does around here, you cannot really take the word "river" from your mind. You see stuff that goes from the actual rivers getting huge to roads and sidewalks which become creeks.
If you look closer... quite a bit closer, you will see how the effect is the same at this scale: little rivers like this one go across a single coffee leaf, just drops at a time for us, but huge and wild rivers for ants and other small citizens of the plant.
Once again perspective makes a big difference to perception.
06-13-2012 "After the rain"
Walking out at the garden after the rain does not always yield a colorful ladybug or a majestic butterfly, sometimes you just take whatever or whomever happens to be around around and try to work a little bit with it.
This friend here is a common, plain fly. Yes, by human standards it probably does not result very attractive, however I am sure some other fly will find it quite handsome.
At any rate, beauty is a difficult thing to measure, even by human standards. Some are more interested in the actual concept of physical perfection, while others look for a great mind. Most of us look for balance, and that concept changes from person to person. too. Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder.
