All these tiny little green things are hopefully going to all become mangoes, and this is just one flower head. At the moment the tree is really covered in potential fruit. Once they get bigger we'll cover as many as we can to protect them from the birds, but the birds will still have plenty from the top of the tree where we can't reach to cover them.
Oh, I am looking forward to next year when the mangoes will be ripening and ready for eating.
All these tiny little green things are hopefully going to all become mangoes, and this is just one flower head. At the moment the tree is really covered in potential fruit. Once they get bigger we'll cover as many as we can to protect them from the birds, but the birds will still have plenty from the top of the tree where we can't reach to cover them.
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I was out taking photos of the flowers on our callistemon bushes that we planted earlier - I'm trying to remember now whether we planted all those trees and bushes late last year, or early this year. Time has gone by in such a blur I've lost track. I do remember spending a lot of time spreading mulch over the back garden area, and having no mulch for the front garden until a couple of months ago. But nonetheless this is their first spring and first flowering. When I went down the other day I noticed just how gorgeous the colour the flowers on this Callistemon are and simply had to get some photos - as you do. I wasn't the only one attracted to the flowers and there was a bee busy doing what bees do. Glad we're helping to keep the bee population alive. Not easy to capture a bee flying, but I'll keep on trying!
Asymmetrical: Irregular | Lopsided | Distorted I had visions of creating a still life to make an interesting shot for the prompt, but time and other things that need doing kind of got in the way. So it was off around the garden to take a photo of a flower off to the side of the image so that it 'asymmetrical'. This little bee was busy getting nectar and just wouldn't stay still long enough for me to focus. This is probably the clearest of the photos that I took of it. A couple of other photos that were contenders for the prompt. Now hopefully I will get back on track and get my photos posted on the correct day!
Keep Going: Persevere | Endure | Press On Yesterday was another busy day which saw me driving in to the city - not something I like to do - to attend a meeting on rare diseases. It was an interesting meeting with a variety of presenters as well as personal narratives from people who have rare diseases, as well as the mother of children who have rare diseases. While each disease is, in itself, rare, there are somewhere between 7000-8000 rare diseases, which means there are an awful lot of people who have a rare disease. Meanwhile I didn't really have anything in mind for the prompt of Keep Going so I wasn't sure what I was going to photograph. Coming back from feeding the chickens I was looking at our young mulberry tree and noticed this amazing caterpillar - which necessitated a trip to the office and then to the house for camera and macro lens. Regardless of the prompt I thought I'd do this photo as an "off topic" shot, although at a stretch you could say that it's going to keep going until it becomes a moth. The photo below, believe it or not, is the caterpillars head, and what amazing eyelashes it has! I did watch them moving. I had no idea what on earth this little guy was so I searched google with the only words I could think of to describe it and they were 'toothbrush' and 'caterpillar'. Seems that my descriptors worked as I found a picture of it immediately!
Apparently this is a Lymantriid moth larva, also known as a Tussock Moth caterpillar, or a Toothbrush Moth caterpillar. The larvae of tussock moths are very hairy and can usually be recognised by the characteristic large tufts of of long erect hairs sticking up from part of the body and looking like a tooth brush. Isn't it an amazing looking creature, however apparently if you touch the bristles they can set off an allergic reaction in some people, and they are able to get through quite a large amount of leaves. I think I may need to remove this one from my garden. Predictable: Expected | Likely | Anticipated Ah, another prompt where I really had no idea what I was going to photograph. And not a lot came to mind as the day progressed. When all else fails, there's always a dog or two to take photos of. So let's go with how predictable Zimi is when it comes to the time of the afternoon for throwing balls. I can always count on Zimi to be absolutely alert and ready to go. This is Zimi in high alert as I have the balls in one hand ready to throw and the camera in the other. I'm not sure I'll be forgiven for this unflattering photo though, but it was too cute to pass up. ISO 100, 70mm, f/4.0, 1/200 sec While I was out and about in the garden throwing the balls and gathering some cherry tomatoes I noticed a couple of little bugs on a leaf. Naturally I went back in to get the macro lens for the camera so I could get some shots of them. ISO 640, 100mm, f/4.0, 1/125 sec
I couldn't actually work out what I was seeing on the LED screen at the back of the camera and it wasn't until I uploaded the photos to the computer that I worked out that I had captured these little guys in the process of procreation. Well, I'm pretty sure that's what's happening here. I have a feeling that they might have also eaten away the edge of that leaf. I've already uploaded these photos onto my Facebook page, but thought I'd put them up here as well.
I was watering the garden and managed to also get a grasshopper rather wet. Raced in to get the camera, which already had the macro lens on so it was good to go and back out before the grasshopper had hopped away. Got in nice and cozy with the shrubs and plants to get some close up shots. It really looks like the grasshopper is wiping away the water from its eye. This is one of the reasons I enjoy macro photography so much - to be able to see such detail that one normally doesn't when simply looking from a distance. Macro shots really bring out the beauty in many things. |
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