I keep getting these little reminders of a June father's day. After 12 years here, it seems I'm finally getting used to a September date for us. I still remember the March mother's day for the UK, probably because my mother-in-law is there and still with us.
I'm always amazed at the intricate beauty of tiny flowers, that mostly get overlooked because of their size. Usually they appear to us as nothing more than a tiny splash of colour if we don't get up close to them. I'm glad you camera was able to capture them.
So, Father's Day is in September in Australia @minismallholding? And Mother's Day in March in the UK ... Hmmm. Here it is in May and Father's Day is in June. I sometimes wonder about how these dates were ever established, but ... Well, most of the time, I just "go with it" ... 🙂
Yes, it is always worthwhile to stop and "smell the roses," by getting down close to them to appreciate their colorful designs and patterns.
A similar experience for me has been the little bit of birdwatching I have done. Years ago, I was inspired to buy a good pair of binoculars, for just that purpose. It is a marvel how they also are intricately colored and marked. You can never really appreciate it, though, without a good pair of binoculars, since they rarely will allow you to get close enough without them.
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Australia decided to be different! I think our mother's day matches yours, in May.
My daughter can sometimes capture those tiny birds with her zoom lens. They are so fast, though! Imagine what it must take to capture a humming bird with a camera!
Yes, well, in the "land down under," I guess that is okay @minismallholding! 🙃 Hahaha ...
If your daughter can do that, she is very good. Reminds me of one of the more impressive posts I've seen over my time "in here." The wife of Joseph, who created SBI, put together a detailed description of how she would hold her phone up to one lens of her binoculars and take pictures of birds. While she did not share how many she took to end up with the ones she showed to us, the results were absolutely amazing!
Maybe she put her phone on "machine gun" mode, with its "rapid fire" picture-taking abilities ... 😉
Yes, hummingbirds are a favorite. I wonder around the world, how many different styles of hummingbird feeders there are. We have certainly enjoyed having them up at various times over the years.
As fast as they are, though, they are still not fast enough to escape a determined cat. At the one "homestead" we lived in for years, at the base of the Uintah mountains, I watched with my own eyes as "Panther," one of our pure black cats, leapt about +3 feet straight up and caught a hummingbird in mid-air buzzing around near our feeder. We were horrified and not impressed (okay, maybe grudgingly ...)!
I had to put in a wire mesh halfway up, between the ground and the feeder, to block any future attempts of our cats to eat our hummingbirds. While we loved how efficiently and effectively they kept the field mice population down around our home, we never anticipated how "effectively" they also kept down the bird population ... 😌
😲 That is horrifically impressive! Sadly our neighbour's cat used to hunt the local bird in our garden. Prey is prey for them, I guess.
That is a clever hack with the telescope. I'll have to tell my daughter about that one. She had a go at reversing her zoom lens for macro photos, but it's hard to hold it steady without some form of clip to hold it in place.