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February 15th, 2010

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In the order of your arrivals, welcome to;
@Phainopepla95 @MissLoto @Pages2Type @Hondosan
You make me feel special :) I am honoured!

On my fridge the other day, I spied this creature climbing up.
They are a curious wee beasty, stick insects. I wonder do they grow new legs or does this one have to live with five legs now? I guess it's an Insec until it does grow a new one...

I hope everything is going well for you all out there,
it is a funny/sad world we live in
Well it's a serious/beautiful world
but life is funny/sad, kind of like a kalydascope
we're all simple, colourful, little shapes
but when we land in our lives
we become a mesmirising vision of fantasy.

Sad we cannot see the beautiful colourful little shapes we really are!
Sad that so many get lost, in the fantastic illusion.

opheliaglass
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I always think it's sad when these guys get stepped on, ironically, because they look like twigs.

February 15th, 2010
Serendip
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@Opheliaglass I know, it must be hard to be an insect, and I'm sure if you take time to know them they are pretty nice. That's a pretty caring thing to say Ophelia :)

February 15th, 2010
phainopepla95
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Often, these are the result of bird attacks. Perhaps they don't taste good or it escaped by sacrificing two legs. Another scenario: a bird mistook it for a twig, tried to gather it up for a nest, and it escaped by sacrificing two legs. Regardless, what a wonderful opportunity you had, @Serendip, to observe close up an example of nature's answer to the question, "What's NOT for lunch?"

February 15th, 2010
Serendip
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Oh, stop laughing me!!! I am just thinking of a bird trying to use it as a twig, that is sadly ironic!! But @Phainopepla95 you mis-count I think, it has only lost one leg!

Usually taking pictures of insects is difficult because they are always running away, but this guy was like a statue. I took several pictures because with macro photography, depth of focus is apalling, as you can see in this picture, and stuck them all together so it is almost entirely in focus.

February 15th, 2010
jimbonius
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I must say, Peter -- your little forum here is one of the most interesting stops on the web for me these days. I also like your repeated use of images other than self portraits in building what amounts to... a self-portrait.

February 15th, 2010
phainopepla95
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Yes, on recount, I must agree: Five legs remain!

February 15th, 2010
Serendip
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@jimbonius
Thanks Jim, nice words :)
I just watched your Video
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p9_4Q6frzE&feature=sub)
and enjoyed it very much, you make a good roving reporter! :)

@phainopepla95 glad to hear it, I was getting tired of going back to the picture to compulsively count the legs to check I hadn't missed something, haha :)

February 16th, 2010
Bannie
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@serendip I'm glad he was outside your fridge and not inside.......he might have got cold.

February 21st, 2010
Serendip
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@Bannie, and he might have eaten all my food!

February 22nd, 2010