Hunter
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If anything looks different this week it might be because I am using a different computer, having lost access to my usual via lightning strike.
These spider shots are from another time. His, or her, hunting ground was a dried out stem. The fly didn’t stand a chance once in range.
Such is life, you never know what’s coming over the horizon. Careful with that spidey mate.
It pays to be prepared … for whatever may be, that it be right.
© Mark Berkery ……. Click on those pictures for a closer look
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Nature's Place 
Beautiful pictures, very well framed!
Thanks NV…
Ouch!… But this is really top photography…
Thanks Nil.
The pictures are awesome and the eyes of that mate are amazing! And these little hairs everywhere. Some insects may not be my favourite, but when I see their eyes these little creatures are so sympathetic, I can’t help it! Be aware of the moment :-)
Yes indeed … And to do that sustainably it is necessary for me to stop thinking, because thinking is the past that colours the moment.
Thank you Mark! So true!
It’s what I find works, more or less. The more I do it the more it works.
The eyes have it! (Obviously been watching too much of the British parliamentary debates?)
I can’t watch that stuff any more, too much like gratuitous violence, and premeditated.
But the eyes do have it, that essence of being what it is, wild intelligent nature.
More intelligent and true to itself than many of us where it seems the noes have it.
I have noticed, whatever I get up to on the earth, nature always wins out in the end, in one form or another repopulates the space. That’s curiously reassuring, savage and wild as nature is. Reassuring to my nature. That suggests to me at some level I and nature are one, I just have to get rid of what’s in the way. All the ayes and noes perhaps?
Yes that bigger picture is reassuring on one level, but I am still saddened by the willful destruction of populations,habitats and ecosystems that we humans engage in even when we should know better.
For me it’s a matter of perspective, the space everything happens in. If I focus on detail I lose perspective, and by association one detail leads to another and I spiral down into negativity, without end – the human condition everybody wants to solve.
Beautiful and deadly
Indeed … such is nature, beautifully wild, wildly beautiful.