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wings had a tussle with her dreadlocks iron now she was on her way to a plant sap festival her hair a hot mess cotton mealy bug sydney royal botanic gardens sydney australia 1 50 f5 6 iso 200 flash handheld rate this posted in home life through the lens life through the pen tagged cottonmealybug humour insectappreciation insectphotography macrophotography nature photography sydneyroyalbotanicgardens horace posted on july 26 2025 by beeblu horace did not see the human at first he was too busy trying to extricate himself from the web of an orb weaving spider in the silver spruce on the driveway but now they clocked one another australian stick mantis in my garden in sydney australia 1 25 f3 2 iso 100 ambient light handheld rate this posted in life is laughter life is science life through the lens life through the pen tagged humour insectphotography macrophotography nature photography poetry in the ai age posted on june 17 2023 by beeblu i asked chatgpt the following this was its response i then asked we re living in a whole new world what do you think rate this posted in life through the pen tagged ai ai poetry artificial intelligence chatgpt poetry writing 2 comments insomnia posted on august 20 2022 by beeblu i talk to them at 3am my children i tell them about the doomsday vault in svalbard how it s beset by melting permafrost i talk about the hairy frogfish the predator prey cycle of life how humans keep birds in cages and how travel to proxima centauri b would take them 6 300 years a little cosmic joke ha ha i explain that the gang rape of a mother in kyiv next to her child and dead husband is called collateral damage that the weight of a butterfly of uranium destroyed hiroshima and that no single wild species depends for its survival on the freak show that is the human race i tell them that we fail to learn from human history and how they are blessed never to have been born ️2022 k price rate this posted in life through the pen tagged climatechange cruelty existentialism insomnia philosophy poetry ukraine war writing mr tait posted on august 6 2022 by beeblu as i ride pillion through this primeval forest i don t think of the ancient trees how they give us the smooth paper leaves on which we love to press down with granite made from the centre of the earth nor of the fungi beneath how one fruiting body brings us certain death and another alters our consciousness with its saprotrophic strangeness nor of the native bees how their furry bodied industries sustain our food security and survival as a species but instead of mr tait whose smile was a warning and how he taught us to bookmark a book with its own pages without damage and how he showed us how to mitigate injury from possible falls when using a chair as a ladder and how he use to call all the boys fathead ️2020 k price rate this posted in life is science life is travel life through the lens life through the pen tagged australia ktm memories nature photography poetry ridingpillion teachers travel writing country churches posted on june 18 2022 by beeblu astride the ktm beast we ride the country roads of new england passing mini country churches not big enough to swing an axe other than the verbal kind at the crossroads in one hamlet there are two along with a pub and a servo and i wonder if on sundays the population of around 150 evenly splits itself between the green fibro catholic and the beige fibro anglican house of god diagonally opposite or do the agnostics and atheists muddy the holy water truth is i ve never seen any flock to attendance so who goes there the farmers praying for rain the fossickers praying for that nugget the alcoholics praying for forgiveness for beating their wives and children senseless after one too many at the public house on a friday night or are these houses of worship mere relics of the past along with the town s faith on account of all that flood fire and filicide ️2020 k price rate this posted in life is travel life through the lens life through the pen tagged ktm philosophy photography poetry ridingpillion travel writing in the paddock posted on june 5 2022 by beeblu leaning into corner after corner on a wheat fringed country road we come upon a pair of vintage renaults sitting side by side in the paddock like an old couple enjoying the sun but age has wearied them and the years condemned to a slow rusting death the for sale sign long faded who drove them to their final destination full of hope they would go as a bonded pair to loving home ️2020 k price rate this posted in life is travel life through the lens life through the pen tagged australia ktm photography poetry ridingpillion travel writing isadora posted on may 29 2022 by beeblu i m riding pillion on the ktm beast when our silhouette on the damp bitumen paints my scarf flying like a siamese fighter s tailfin in the slipstream and i think of you isadora and wonder if in that nano second that the forces of the universe conspired to smash you into the cobblestones of the riviera you had a chance to think how absurd i tuck in the delinquent ends i wouldn t want your spectacular end to be in vain ️2020 k price rate this posted in life is travel life through the lens life through the pen tagged existentialism ktm philosophy photography poetry ridingpillion travel writing notes from a ktm december 2019 posted on january 4 2020 by beeblu notes from a ktm december 2019 notes from a ktm december 2019 read on nosuchthingasordinary wordpress com 2020 01 03 notes from a ktm december 2019 rate this posted in home leave a comment autumn posted on april 14 2019 by beeblu autumn steals in like a quiet cat looking for a warm place to settle on the mountains in the copses and through the forests the trees rustle amongst themselves and blush at her touch do the beetles know of this i do not know they talk to their gods in tongues ️2019 k price rate this posted in life through the pen tagged australia nature poetry science writing 12 comments anna posted on november 24 2018 by beeblu the sea knows loss its ancient suspirations inhale terra firma grit by grit the sea knows abyssal hobgoblins well up from their deep rutted trenches even on sunshiny days they manifest their stinking grotesquery on sabulous shores the sea knows violence never sleeps is always sighing like you the sea knows some things are worse than dying 2018 karen price rate this posted in life through the pen tagged annacornelius death grief poetry south africa 10 comments joy posted on november 11 2018 by beeblu last week this funny sweet floofie bum turned one he celebrated with his best friend millie who joined our family in may this year they bring us such joy rate this posted in life is love tagged cats family joy love pets 8 comments emoji san posted on april 15 2018 by beeblu in february this little creature came into our lives hello born in early november last year he arrived from the breeder a bit worse for wear our local vet confirmed he was underweight and treated him for an evidenced flea infestation and a suspected case of worms little mangy mouse but with lots of tlc not to mention sleep and food he s thriving such a funny sweet creature who chirrups and chats away considering mainecoons can reach up to 16kg let s hope he stays that way rate this posted in life is health life through the lens tagged cats emoji emojisan life love mainecoon pets photography 15 comments smile posted on april 11 2018 by beeblu i chatted to this chap while riding the spectacular tadami line in the fukushima prefecture of japan in january he has travelled all over the world and now retired loves to travel on the japanese rail network on his pensioner s card he told me that he is 84 but climbed mt kilimanjaro when he was 75 three days up two days down climbing mt fuji is a lot easier while we were talking he smiled a lot with his spectacular gold filled teeth but when he posed for me to take his picture he struck a more serious look traveller on the tadami line rate this posted in life is travel life through the lens tagged fukushima japan oku aizu people photography tadami line trains travel vintage trains 12 comments congratulations tilly bud posted on february 21 2018 by beeblu now this makes my heart glad via exciting news for me anyway rate this posted in life through the pen tagged books environment poetry wriiting 2 comments snow monkeys of jigokudani posted on february 11 2018 by beeblu the friendly helpful staff at kanazawa station visitors centre advised me not to attempt a day trip to the snow monkeys from kanazawa not unsound advice but i ignored it anyway as i only had time for a day trip and caught the 8 58am hakutaka567 shinkansen bullet train from kanazawa to nagano on arrival at nagano station after asking directions i flew down a couple of escalators and bought a day pass to the jigokudani yaen koen the pass included the return trip on the local yukemuri express train or the express bus between nagano and yudanaka on the nagano dentetsu line the local bus between yudanaka station and the park entrance as well as admission to the park from the local bus stop to the park main entrance it s a short uphill walk along the road and once you re in the park you climb a set of stairs walk approximately 1 6km through the forest and then climb another set of stairs at the end of the trail to reach the macaques the park s visitor advisories stress that visitors ensure they wear appropriate footwear but humans being what they are ignore advice when it doesn t suit them yes i know i ignored advice not to attempt the day trip and i saw many people attempting to walk the snow and ice laden forest trail in the most ridiculous footwear including one chap in sandals and socks forest trail to the snow monkeys 2018 karen price the walk is beautiful but quite treacherous even for those in sensible footwear you need to watch out for iced sections i saw people land flat on their backs without warning and while the unfenced forest drop off is not exactly sheer it is precipitous and you d need rescuing with ropes if you slipped on the ice and disappeared over the edge so a good sense of balance comes in handy and bear in mind that you re walking at altitude even if it s only 850m so you need at least a basic level of cardiovascular fitness many visitors seemed to struggle along the way is it worth it snow monkeys 2018 karen price the monkeys are utterly fascinating to watch particularly those bathing in sleepy bliss in the hot spring and i wish i d had the time to observe them for a bit longer japanese macaque jigokudani 2018 karen price however it s not quite the scene of simian serenity depicted in the brochures it s not so much disturbed by the constantly scrapping screeching macaque troupe romping about in the surrounding snow but rather by their human cousins behaving badly contrary to the blurbs that advise that the monkeys ignore humans this is not what i observed and my guess is that the situation has developed due to our endless stupidity the park provides many clear warnings to visitors to not bring packets or foods into the area and to not attempt to interact with the monkeys in any way all of which were ignored by some people on the day i was there i watched as a macaque went for a girl who attempted to retrieve a torn packet of junk food rubbish from him another bystander amused himself by throwing snowballs at the animal which it blocked with a fascinating human like action and the way that macaque sat and stared long and hard after the idiot as he walked off down the path chilled me to the bone jigokudani means valley of hell and in jigokudani yaen koen hell is other people bliss 2018 karen price a few things to note if you re planning a similar visit the jr rail pass is incredibly good value for getting around japan not to mention much more convenient and relaxing in comparison to flying and i cannot recommend it enough but it doesn t necessarily cover all local train routes so check beforehand in my case it covered all the local train trips i took except the local train from nagano to yudanaka although the shinkansen bullet trains are equipped with all the modern conveniences including impeccable toilets many of the local trains do not have toilets including the local train from nagano to yudanaka so make sure to check and take your comfort breaks before boarding rate this posted in life is travel life through the lens tagged japan japanesemacaque jrrail nature photography shinkansen snowmonkeys travel 16 comments snowsilence posted on january 6 2018 by beeblu i do not know this silence the silence of snow rate this posted in life is travel life through the lens tagged japan kanazawa nature photography poetry silence snow travel writing 15 comments post navigation older posts acknowledgements bee gravatar by steph hawkeswood follow beeblu blog on wordpress com copyright beeblu wordpress com no poems or photographs from this site may be 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