It’s National Moth Week! I haven’t yet seen any awesome moths lately, so here’s one from last August … but I did see a tarantula hawk today, so that was pretty cool!
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Tag: nature
dragonfruit
I’ve had these dragonfruit cuttings jammed in a pot for years. They periodically flower, but never set fruit. I should get them in the ground; they might do better if they could spread out.
egretto rufescens
Three photographers and a sketcher watched the reddish egret pose and dance in the lagoon’s shallows.
leaning
husky
morning tipple
Have a little tipple, make a little ripple
cassowary
We’re planning a trip Downunder. I’m practicing my cassowary-sketching, just in case we’re lucky enough to spot one in Far North Queensland. I’d better start practicing kangaroos, snakes and parrots too. I can’t wait to get back there, it’s been three years!
fuchsia buds
Fuchsia is such a weird word. Even though I am good at spelling, I keep thinking it should be ‘fuschia’. In fact, knowing that I find the word tricky, I looked it up before doing this lettering and STILL spelled it wrong. I had to move the letters around in Photoshop to correct it. Doh!
nary a newt
We looked for newts in the pools where Annette and I had found them last week, but nary a newt was seen today.
cercopithecus mona
The mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) is native to the lowland forests of eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and western Cameroon. Its natural forest habitat has been impacted by widespread clearing, and it suffers from being hunted for food. However, it’s an adaptable species and the population does not seem to be declining significantly. It is generally the commonest monkey near rivers in the region.
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