Natural Thing
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The eyes have it.
And the ears.
As I got out of the car I noticed movement in the grass about 20m away. As I looked to see what it was it stopped still and slowly sank to the ground as, I suspect, it registered eyes on it.
Water dragon, much like the last one only smaller, winter time thinner. But just as placid, made no move to run, no suggestion of attack. Up close s/he was positively relaxed.
Male or female, it doesn’t really matter to the sense of things. Only in consideration of other matters that really don’t matter here.
The fact is it is a wild, savage creature. Surviving on the edge of civilization and behaving with instinctive integrity, being.
All creatures have it, the absence of that self-consciousness that signifies ‘trouble’ in people – an emotional cunning.
It’s what attracts us to nature, the innocence, an honest engagement with natural intelligence in uncivilized form.
You always know where you stand with nature, no double think.
No thinking at all.
© Mark Berkery ……. Click on those pictures for a closer look
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Nature's Place 
Beautiful close-up photos.
Thanks E…
Visual therapy to slow and behold…perfect!
Yes, what we acknowledge ‘outside’ has an effect ‘inside’. Though one is really the other, oscillating …
Thanks Dani.
Incredible, Mark. The details and colors…and the eye. Woah! Nature is marvelous. 🤗
Yes, the marvels that come out of nature, our nature.
Thanks Jane.
Lovely
Indeed …
Beautiful! :)
She is …
Oh My Goodness!
Goodness it is … Thanks Nia.
In the eyes of all “your” creatures : your respect and love for them.
Thanks Harry. That is of course the impersonal ‘you’. :-)
`WOW … as always
:-)
What a cool critter! I appreciate your reflection too, about the innocence and honesty — the authenticity — of the natural world compared to the manmade.
Yes, authentic … Good word for it.
Thanks Cate.
The eyes have it. Stunning.
Do you see … there’s nothing in there. Nothing to see to name.