L'oublié

Mama bee comes home covered in pollen...

Here she comes, covered with pollen and ready to make a food ball she will place next to her egg, so that as soon as it hatches, it gets enough food to grow into its imago form. It will then fly away to its life and come back next spring to lay its eggs in the same gallery or the one beneath or the one above...

 

 Did she mistake her hatching gallery with another's or did someone else got into hers ? Seems a bit busy in there...

She is going in, possibly getting the intruder out... (I saw it happened many times before, quite impressive, it then develops into a full fight in flight... kung fu bee)

Not quite... She sits at the entrance of the gallery, waiting for me to get my camera, so that finally I can shoot her in all her golden pollen glory. She didn't move for ages, as if she enjoyed the shooting. I guess she must be used to me by now, coming close, observing, commenting, mumbling and else... 

 

Rencontre avec une Voix...

... pendant le festival Résurgences à Lodève. 

Sephardic lullaby "Nani nani" - Anass Habib

 

 

 

Thunder Moon

Nobody said it was going to be easy…

Musée Dali - Figueras.

But does it have to be so harsh?

Sometimes it is so easy to lose faith

Sometimes it is so easy so surrender to doubt and fear

Life is a succession of steps and tests and confrontations

Sanity is not always easy to retain

Nothing is ever that simple

Nothing is ever that difficult

It is just a matter of point of view

It is only a matter of perception

Somehow there is light into darkness

There is hope in desperation

Whatever it might take we must keep up

The real challenge is not to feel good when everything is sweet & lovely

But to remain calm in chaotic times.

It is easy to believe in summertime when the sun is blazing,

It is harder when the rain is pouring down from heaven.

It has always been accessible for some to indulge in wicked pleasures 

While others trespass anonymously.

O Lord! How long will it take?

Before Love shines once again over Insanity?

Before Peace reigns once again over Savagery?

Before Harmony wins once again over Egoism?

Before we finally surrender to redemption?

Before we seek for salvation?

Conversation with God, Monday, 28 January 2002.

Collage XII

Rencontre

Le gonepteryx rhamni mâle, communément appelé "le citron"

Un papillon étonnant.

Avec une espérance de vie supérieure à un an, le Gonepteryx rhamni fait partie des papillons européens ayant la plus longue existence.
Réfugié au sein de plantes à feuillage persistant (généralement du lierre), les ailes repliées, le Gonepteryx rhamni est un des rares papillons hivernant à l’état adulte et le seul, dans nos contrées, à le faire en plein air (les autres lépidoptères, hivernant adulte, cherchent un abri sous un toit, dans un trou d’arbre ou une grotte). Cette caractéristique explique probablement son hivernation « légère », puisqu’il peut se réveiller n’importe quand en hiver si la température est clémente (principalement les mâles). Ainsi, il n’est pas rare de le voir faire son retour très tôt au printemps, parfois même avant qu’aucune fleur ne soit ouverte.

Source : http://www.univers-nature.com/

 

 

 

Calligraphie du feu II

Calligraphie du feu I

Quatre de mes xylocopes pensionnaires

Elles reviennent chaque année, plus nombreuses, afin de pondre dans l'installation de canisses que j'améliore au fil du temps.

Certaines, piquées par la curiosité du bruit de mon appareil photo, ont sorti la tête de leur abri...

Pour en savoir plus sur les xylocopes ou abeilles charpentières :

http://www.insectes-net.fr/xylocope/xylocop2.htm