Pretty On Pink
A Green Shield Bug flits from place to place around the garden. If it doesn’t find what it wants in one place off it goes to another. But what does a bug want? Food, shelter and a mate, what else …
It doesn’t know to want anything it doesn’t need. Could it possibly just enjoy the colour in the sunshine, playing in the garden. As many other garden dwellers can be seen or seem to do.
Is there any conscious self awareness in a bug, or is it an instinctive organic robot. Maybe a messenger of a greater intelligence, the earth perhaps.
And anything born has the potential of its mother, and more.
Let’s not dismiss the little things.
© Mark Berkery ……. Click a picture for a closer look
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Nature's Place 
Your eye and photographs, with the resulting exquisite images; as well as your gentle reflections, have affected how I look at nature when I am out walking … have affected my outlook for the better. I thank you.
Glad to hear it. Soon, I think, I will be teaching meditation again and if there is interest I will include time in nature – being in the (inner) sensation and the reciprocal of being in the (outer) senses.
Thanks Susan.
I hope it does take the time to play and enjoy the sunshine.
Love this poetic post. Thank you.
Thanks Lea. These days I prefer to see the playful of the earth than the insanity of the world ‘news’. :-)
Great title for an even better photo!
Thanks Lyle …
To my eye, a messenger of the Mother simply by being itself . . . itself naturally inseparable from the Mother. Do we, as humans, have the eyes, ears and heart to perceive/receive the message? Thank you for the cheerful image and wise words.
Yes, every little earth made thing carries something of its mother for its mother. For those with intelligence, stillness of mind, enough to see.
Thanks Jan …
Thank you, Mark, beautifully said.
Soo amazing: ))
Wonderful creatures, earth made and not a sigh of heart-stress or worldly strain. :-)
Sieht sehr schön aus :-)
Danke Mathilda …
I think every bug has a personality. Some are skittish, others bold. Some do not mind standing out.
That’s true, some do display characteristics we would consider signs of individuality in people. Question then is are those people really individuals in their behaviour, or are they instinctive (though somewhat learned and emotionalised) organic robots?
I have no doubt that humans are instinctive and tribal (pack animals). They are not at all rational, although they rationalize. But neither are they organic robots. They are fairly predictable animals, easily manipulated, but irregular enough to shed the label robotic. People are just animals, no better, no worse, but at this time, their damaging activities could easily be called an infestation.
Even machines have their irregularities. :-)
People are just animals, animals are instinctive organic robots – for the most part. What sets people apart, for the most part, is a capacity for self reflection that enables self initiated change – evolution of intelligence in other words – which is also predictable. It looks to me the whole of existence and everything in it is robotic, mechanical, following broadly predictable – including the irregulars – if often complex courses. That doesn’t make it any less an amazing place.
Nice capture and interesting thoughts and great colors in the photo.
thanks David. It’s a pleasure …
What a wonderful contrast! We see them all the time, but they seem to like to sit on the green.
Yes, bugs tend not to stand out, survival instinct. This one goes against the grain. Maybe telling us something? :-)
cute
That’s one word for it … :-)