I am currently capturing summer in photographs (see here for more details).
Today is all about some of the beautiful insects I have come across on my walks. I start off with the bumble bees I met at the poppy patch:
I was trying to take a photograph of this flower, but found that I was not the only one interested in it:
I met this colourful bug sunbathing happily on these flowers:
And I said hello to this wiggly caterpillar which reminded me of the very hungry caterpillar and made me smile:
I was out walking in the park yesterday and thought about how much I prefer summer to winter. Although it is a big part of it, the warmer weather isn???t the only reason. I think it is that everything seems so much brighter, so much more colourful and so much more alive in summer. I took out my camera and started to take pictures of everything I saw that made me smile. After a few hours, I found I had still not run out of things to capture.
I have decided that during this summer, I will take as many walks in parks and woods as I can manage and capture, in photographs, as much of the summer as I can. When the winter sets in and all seems dull, grey and dead, I will hopefully be able to find some joy in my little virtual summer.
I had an interesting week of photography where by coincidence, I just happened to photograph lots of flowers. First there were the roses in my friend’s art studio…
Then there was the rose at my sister’s house…
Then there were these flowers in a flower bed
Then came the dandelion before I mowed the lawn
And then, I was out to see a client and noticed these pink petals by the kerb!
I am now fed up with the persistently cold and wet days of the last month. How I long for a bright sunny day to chase away these winter blues.
A bee flying off from a flower.