buff tip moths

...and someone intent on eating their way through the universe. I wonder if caterpillars see butterflies as a somewhat frivolous deviation from the main purpose of life. It is hard to imagine a free flying form settling down and metamorphosing into a grub.

admin note:- Spot thought these were mullein moth caterpillars but they are more likely to be buff tip 3/9/06

reflections

late summer, the Lynher in deep green, like a giant cathedral in wood and water. 

lamping

this bus is not native but can be found at http://www.redkid.net/generator/bus/sign.php
but in my minds eye it is how I think I look to the average rabbit. Thanks to Queen Eliza 1.

berries 2

...and somehow these are the berries one might expect from a plant like lords and ladies, it just looks very vulgar; maybe I should call them dogberries.

berries

these exotic red berries are the fruit of the flowering nutmeg (qv) escaped into the wild at Old Mill. 

water rat

chasing the water boatmen, making huge ripples in their universe, water like liquid mercury.