This little creature suddenly landed on my sweater and looked deep into my eyes. So I did the same…
Tag: Macro
Spring is in the air
Yesterday we went to Ta Qali Park. Usually we never go there on the weekends when the summer is over because there are too many people and you can’t have your dog without leash. But we were all alone.
I haven’t been here for a while and was really surprised. It felt like spring even though we are in November! This beauty has a very special expression, perhaps it was also surprised that it felt like spring in the air.
The sky was blue, the grass was green and there were lots of small yellow flowers.
Fanny was more than happy to run around in the greenery without a leash. 
At first I didn’t notice that there were two butterflies on the leaf! 
A spider with its catch of the day.
I saw lots of different kinds of butterflies, dragonflies and other kinds of insects. But as usual, they are very active and difficult to capture with the camera. I’m glad I got this one.
Ta’ Qali National Park, Malta
Welcome November
Typically November, the sky is gray, it’s thundering and it’s raining again.
Days like these we need both color and flowers and not to forget, a happy mind. 
Susan’s Flowers on Fridays # 13.
Cee’s Photo Challenge.
Flower of The Day
It continues to rain here on the island. 
These are still blooming on our terrace, although it’s soon November.
Life goes on, sometimes a bit too fast. For the future, I have a wish…
Cee’s Photo Challenge.
Thistly
“Do not blame the thistle that you can see no beauty”
– Jonathan Lookwood Huie – 
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”
– Albert Einstein – 
Pomegranates and Prickly Pears
We spent another Sunday among pomegranates and prickly pears in Majjistral Nature Park. This time I had brought gloves so I could pick some of the prickly fruits. They taste pretty good, not too sweet.
The pomegranate kernels are not sweet at all but taste good mixed with yogurt and some honey.
I found a small nest full of life…
…and a butterfly. There were plenty of them but I only managed to capture this one.
Fanny was with us, as always. Here she rests after running around in the amazing surroundings of the park.
And here she waits patiently between the rocks as we make our way up the last hill on the way up to the plateau where we have parked our car. The weather was fine, 25 degrees and another day of life is gone.
20 October 2019 Il-Majjistral Nature & History Park
Autumn Feeling
Last Sunday we went to Il-Majjistral Nature Park here in Malta. We haven’t been here since last spring and it is always exciting to see how our nature changes, depending on the seasons. Now autumn is here.
This is nothing to be found in the spring.
These thistles have completely changed colors. Once purple, now turned into soft autumn colors.
Our nature is absolutely amazing! This picture speaks for itself. 
As always, Fanny was with us. She loves to run freely in the large nature park with all steep slopes. She has seen wild rabbits here, now sniffing and looking for them. Luckily she never catches any, they are too fast.
Orchids
Macro Monday
The butterflies above are from my archive and I believe they were all photographed in Borneo’s rainforest some years ago. Maybe someone out there knows what kind of butterflies these are?
Yesterday I saw this tiny dragonfly here in Malta but the beauty flew away too fast.
Without my macro lens this time but at least I got a fairly good close up.
Sunshine’s Macro Monday
Thursday’s pictures..
The main thing these pictures have in common… 
…is that they are surrounded by the greenery of nature.
“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light”
– Hans Hofmann –
Goodbye September
” In all things of Nature there is something of the Marvelous”
– Aristotle –
” The earth has music for those who listen”
– Shakesphere –
Cee’s Photo Challenge
Sunshine’s Macro Monday
Photo a day Challenge / Goodbye September
Flower of The Day
Today’s flower
Dragon fly – The One and Only
I’ve only seen a very few dragonflies this year and those I’ve seen have flown by quickly. 
Certainly I was happy when I found this one sitting on a twig in Ta Qali National Park. 
I was worried it would fly away and therefore had difficulty adjusting the focus quickly, but I’m pretty happy anyway.
Roses
“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.”
– Bret Michaels –
“A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: Aren’t you tired of waiting? Yes, answers the rose, ‘but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.”
– Paulo Coelho –
Time for a break
I’m taking a break now, not sure for how long. 
Flying away from Malta tonight for two weeks.
It really feels like I have to get away from it all right now.
💕 Take care out there! 💕 
“Sometime I just want to fly
away from here…
…as the bird fly before the winter.”
Today’s plant – Flower of the Day
This may not be a flower.
But it’s a kind of plant and since all flowers are plants…
…this tiny plant is my flower of the day.
I don’t know what kind of plant this is but there are plenty of them now in Ta Qali Park.
“In all things of Nature there is something of the marvelous”
– Aristotle –
Susan’s Flowers on Fridays # 4.
Cee’s Photo Challenge
Hibiscus
One of the very few flowers left on our roof terrace is this Hibiscus which has been growing there for eleven years now. We also have some geraniums left and I also bought a Bougainvillea, my favorite among flowers.
Susan’s Flowers on Fridays # 1.
Cee’s Photo Challenge
Flower of the Day
This is a very small flower that I found in Ta Qali National Park.
Perhaps someone know what kind of flower it is.
Cee’s Photo Challenge
Mating Butterflies
Close encounters.
Ta Qali National Park, Malta, 20 July 2019.
Flower of the Day
Flower of the Day
Today I had a visitor among my flowers. It was very small.
Almost as tiny as a thumbnail.
Monday’s macro
Click on an image to enlarge.
Flower of the Day
Bougainvillea, I love this flower and especially when seen in this color.
Wordless Wednesday
Flower of the Day
Flower of the day
Flower of the Day
Lovely Poppies!
They are now seen growing everywhere on the small island of Malta.
Cee’s Photo Challenge
Flower of the Day
Happy Easter!
Bee, Yellow, Blue & Jump to Pink…
The mimosa flowers shines like small suns.
A grasshopper rests on a blade of grass…
…while a bee searches for nectar among some flowers.
Spring is here after a winter that has been too long and too cold.
Another weekend is waiting, on Monday I fly to Spain. It feels like it’s time to move on…
Today’s Spring flowers
Malta 23 March 2019.
Tuesday’s photos
Wild growing grains, delicate,
fragile and for some,
essential.
Can be a bit challenging to capture, especially when the wind blows.
Balance & Harmony
You may not feel or see any balance between these two images,
but I tried to put some harmony in both of them, then I found a balance.
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony”
– Thomas Merton –
Greetings from Sarawak!
Just some images from where I’m now…
…in Sarawak.
Sarawak is located in Borneo, Malaysia and we are now in Kuching. 
The playful children was taken in 2016 while the rest are all new.
The children may represent the joy and harmony found here in amazing Borneo.
I haven’t had much time left to create new posts or to visit You but next week I’m back to my everyday life in Malta and my lovely Basenji dog Fanny. Take care out there!!
Depth of Field
Some images from last weekend in Il-Bajja tal-Ġnejna, Gnejna Bay in Mgarr.
I hope the depth of field can be seen in some of these pictures.
Last but not least, my beloved Basenji Fanny, always by my side, a precious part of my life.
For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: Depth of Field
Some Fun Growths & Fanny
There is a lot of growth to be found in nature now here in Malta.
Here are some of more or less funny plants that I saw last weekend when we visited Il-Bajja tal-Ġnejna. Another exciting nature park we never visited before. But thanks to Fanny we still find new places to explore.
I’ve never seen anything like this. Looks edible! Wonder how this one will look when growth ends.
A cool growth hairstyle.
For me, the most precious growth, when Fanny became part of our family.
Spring Fever!
I felt so happy when I saw almond trees already blooming here on the island! But when I downloaded the images to my computer, I realized they weren’t that good. I used my macro lens and have taken better images. What did I do wrong?
Now I know what went wrong, and I learned something. An image doesn’t always have to be perfect for being good. Being happy is the greatest form of success. I’m very happy and my heartfelt wish is, that so are You.
Soft shapes
More from Majjistral National Park…
Colorful
A banana plant!
Some birds have eaten from a pomegranate
Evening twilight around 5pm.
These pictures are all from last Friday’s trip to Majjistral National Park.
The paths are narrow along the steep slopes of dried clay down to the sea. Not a place to walk after heavy rain.
But the scenery changes and Fanny is surrounded by greenery…
Very commmon throughout the year.
Not so common, a new plant for me, it’s acually a flower!
…while I photographing plants.
I was happy to find so many colorful flowers growing here on the island in late December.
Malta is a lovely little island to live on all year round, unless you long for snow and a white Christmas.
