A cloudy day along Hermitage Foreshore Walk

Nature of Kangaroo Valley

The movements of little flowers in the breeze, the whispers of trees, 

the dancing of light on the surface of a creek into which water dragon lizards dive,

 the heavy steps of sleepy wombats, 

the singsong of birds,

.......the trickle of rainwater along the crevice of a mossy stone...

 

 

Micro discoveries

Recently, I have started looking at things, anything, under a microscope that would otherwise continue to collect dust in the garage, as it had done so for the past fifteen years. And I have been enthralled by the details of things which previously appeared the most ordinary - the translucent quality of a human hair, the intricacy of the patterns of a dried loofah sponge..the hairy legs of a flea!

Today, I was annoyed to find colonies of white bugs along the stems and pods of my bok choy plants...until I placed a few of them under the microscope!!

The smaller one is a baby. 

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This one has beautiful eyes and symmetrical dark markings on its body. I was kept on the edge of my seat, watching it move around, wave its antennas, and then go on to attack the other one on that I had placed on the plastic make-shift slide. It was actually more thrilling than an action movie, there were legs going everywhere, and all this time one of them held a baby bug on one of its legs and kept brushing the baby with another leg, whilst fighting with the other adult bug with the rest of four other legs! I enjoyed the show but I am still not sure what this was about. 

                         A parsley seed after soaking.

 And I found that soaking seeds before planting actually makes them open up and begin the sprouting process - hence the old gardener's trick.