Fleeting Moments are built into nature as they are into our lives. Be they beautiful memories, unbelievable experiences or disastrous events, they come and they go–often too quickly. Many would be forgotten were it not for the click of a lens. Here are some of mine.
Wings
This huge moth was plastered to the wall beside my front door.
Every year around this time, thousands of winged termites descend upon this region, land all around my house and in my pool, chew off their wings and go in search of wood. Here are a few of the piles of wings I found on the stairs to my garage and in front of every door, not to mention covering the surface of my pool.
Sunday Stills Challenge with the topic of #Wings.
I suppose it is the light that is the magnet drawing insects to my screen when I write late at night, but sometimes it seems like an electromagnetic force. These insects do not flutter, but glue themselves to the screen. That force was active on the night described in this poem.
The prompt today is magnet.
What fun to look back a few years to look for photos to meet this challenge. The first one of the bird in the water plants was taken on a trip to Peru several years ago. This particular picture was taken on a pond near the Amazon. The picture of the ant was also taken in the rainforest on that trip.The Mayan woman is a fountain that I commissioned and that spilled water into my pool. Unfortunately a workman tipped it over and broke it a few years ago and the new one I paid for and commissioned has never appeared. Nor has the artist I paid to make it. Sob. The gold colored building is my studio and that little cactus in front of it is now at least 30 feet high. The water lilies are on a pond in the Lake Chapala Society in Ajijic–the town I live near in Mexico, and the green moth flew on to my computer screen a year or so ago and actually had a poem dedicated to it. It was very tiny and only a little bit less green than this picture depicts it to be. Thanks for taking this journey through green with me! If you want to see larger versions, just click on the pictures.
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2015/03/31/one-word-photo-challenge-shamrock/
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