Vicki’s World of Bugs and Flying Creatures

     Recently I went into the flower garden with my camera. A beautiful butterfly fluttered by daring me to capture its beauty with my lens. Then a yellow one landed on a RED flower. Wow! What a beautiful scene! I started snapping like crazy only to discover the blurry, unrecognizable images I produced.  I then discovered the “close-up” feature on my camera. Oh geez. About time I discovered that handy little gadget.

     Since then, I’ve been lured to the garden every day. I’m amazed at the new world I’ve discovered under the leaves. I get down on my knees and look “inside” each flower to inspect the underworld of bees and bugs. It’s an amazing world of small creatures participating in life with us. Til now, only the flowers seemed important. Now I realize you have to look UNDER the flowers to discover the world of living creatures which are so important to the rhythm of mother nature. Important participants in the process of polination, contributing to our very existence in this universe. I feel that I’m discovering more than bugs. That I’m finding a bond with nature. It’s a feeling that is addictive. When Manfred sees me putting on my garden gear every morning and afternoon armed with my camera, he knows I’m going out BUTTERFLY HUNTING again. 

     I’m wondering if my neighbors think I’m crazy, out in the garden every day with my camera, bending over in strange positions for longer periods of time, talking to myself out loud; “Oh, come back little bee, land on this flower!” One day my emotions got carried away in a conversation with a bumble bee while my neighbor was busy watering his flowers.  He looked up at me with a puzzled look on his face as if I said something to him. I told him, “Oh, I was just talking to the bee, never mind”. With a perplexed look on his face he went back to pouring his watering can.

   I hope you like my collection of “creatures” that I have met. They are special and contribute more to the universe than just being “icky, yucky, ugly bugs”. Nope, they’re a lot more than that. If you see them through the eye of the camera, or through the eyes of God their Creator, you might even think they’re beautiful.

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