Night Fly
Not much to report from the wilds, in fact the garden has the feel of stasis due to the recent cold. But there’s never really nothing, is there … So I do the rounds of the various nooks and crannies and what do I find but one of the great survivors, the garden fly.
This one, and a couple others, was making his bed in the flowers, literally. At sundown I would find it down on the flower’s centre while the petals would close up around it, to keep the cold and wind off. Not an unintelligent action at all.
In fact it isn’t hard to see the intelligence in any part of nature, the power animating and giving function to the form so that all the parts fit together to make the whole, of nature. It only requires the surrender of prejudice, thought.
Nature, what we are in existence, is represented by the planet and all its parts, the night sky full of stars too, and looks like it never ends, ‘out there’.
Intelligence, what we are before nature, ‘inside’, that gives rise to the appearance things are, can only be a mystery, to a fly resting on a flower.
Being, the silence upon which it is all drawn, endless and endlessly.
What is endless upon which nothing is written?
I’ll have the endless please …
© Mark Berkery … CLICK any picture to enlarge in a new tab …
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Nature's Place 
I have seen some beatifull pictures of the metalic colors in insects, but this ones are realy fantastic.
Wow great work an stunning pictures!
Thanks Mal … :]
Your photography stuns me. Just stuns me! May I ask what kind of lens you use? I just photographed bees with a 60mm macro, but your fly truly outdoes my images by a long shot. I also see I follow you, yet why I haven’t seen you in my reader is a mystery. SO I just unfollowed and refollowed, hoping this time, your blog will show. Just incredible photographs. You are like me. I am so humbled by the power and the mystique of Nature. Thank you for this post. You honestly just blew my mind! Thank you. Love, Amy
Thanks Amy. I use an old FZ50 with achromats and snooted/diffused flash but you can get good images using almost any cam/gear, with practise and the right understanding of techs – technicalities and technique.
I am sure I remember you from past and don’t know why no updates. Maybe now after re-following … it all works out.
Best … M
I’ve been having issues with WP, Mark. Like finding some friends in my spam, getting unfollowed in the blogs I follow. Like you, for example.
They (WP) keep changing things, and breaking things. But that’s the way it is. Usually the broken things end up fixed.
Who would have thought a fly could be so beautiful? An incredible close up!
Thanks. Yes, even the common fly has a royal line …
The colors are amazing, great shot!
Thanks Sky …
amazingly beautiful in nature
Indeed it is …
Superb Mark!
Thanks Adrian … it is to other than I the credit …
Beautiful images and beautiful words.
Thanks Fred …
STUNNING !!!!
:-)
The extent of intelligence in nature always surprises me.
What is remarkable to me is that people don’t see it – but then they would have to honestly evaluate their behaviour towards nature … Hmmm.
There are flowers with curled petals here and the little bees like to sleep in them when it is raining.
HI Laura. Sweet things …
:)
wow!
What a beautiful post- putting all into an intelligent perspective. Here on the other side of the planet, I took a similiar photo at dusk last night and posted it with similiar- though not so eloquent- reflections. Synchronicity? May your spring be a gentle one, full of beauty. Best wishes, WG
Thanks WG. Synchronicity? In the vital web of intelligent life, all life, some are more connected for a time than are others – and the web trickles on.
;-) Love the trickles of water on the spider webs after a heavy dew. The web itself is infinite, and we are all endlessly entangled. Best wishes, WG
nice picture
Thanks Smiley …
Healing means noticing beauty where once we saw only ugliness–the most beautiful housefly I have ever seen!
Thanks Francois. That’s one way of saying truth …
Exquisite photos Mark. Breathtaking.
Julie
Thanks Julie …
It’s enlightening to discover such awesome small details fitting together to form the whole. That a fly would bed up for the night in the protective petals of a flower. I have been reading about biomimicry and genius of place, this discovery of how finely tuned the integral parts are … and now i will contemplate on the infinity of the endless…. Thanks of the wonderful post.
There is a sense of completion to it, seeing that all fits.
Ha, yes, there’s peace in the endless before any writing takes place …
Amazing picture!
Thanks Kathy, glad you like ’em …
Lucilia cuprina — the Sheep Blowfly. Lovely images.
Lucille it is then. :-)
But there’s no sheep for a hundred miles …
Thanks Ken.