Not Sweating the Small Stuff

Descent into the Bottom of the Garden - A Safari

Apart from lizards, cicadas, grass hoppers, different types of beetles, slaters, ants, a type of burrowing grub, millipedes, wasps, cockroaches, moths, mosquitoes, lady birds, dragon flies ... and so on and on and on, my bonsai-bijou garden is visited nearly every day by the most amazing number of different bird species - Indian Minors, sparrows, finches, honey-eaters ... and the following, captured by my trusty digital camera ...







Can you spot the elusive blue bird in the last photograph? On the branch, extreme bottom left.

Of course, no self-respecting garden fails to be stocked with a squillion types of spiders. Even of the poisonous variety - as evidenced in a recent raid by this deadly red back.


Less deadly dragon flies and and ladybird beetles also pop in less threateningly from time to time.



But nevertheless I'm now seeing venturing into the garden more like going on safari ...


... and wonder whether I need the safari jacket, pants and (most importantly) safari pith helmet?

Well, maybe only a butterfly net ...

Matisse 'Boy with Butterfly Net' 1907 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts

... to go with the trusty Nokia E90!