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When looking at, and smelling, a red rose (without those mundane, learned separations)… one’s consciousness is red and full of life’s fragrance.
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[Sweat Bee, Subfamily Nomiinae, exploring rose flowers.]
Growing together as one. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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Life involves suffering that all of us share and are engaged in (as one); curtail it – don’t increase it – in others.
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[This insect is a Japanese Beetle. They are known for destroying a lot of food crops and garden foliage. Farmers and gardeners tend to deeply despise them. They were particularly bad a few years ago. Back then, there were so many in our area that — even while driving your car for a short while — dozens of them would splatter onto your windshield! They are becoming less of a nuisance due to pesticides and an increase in the types of birds that eat them. The one photographed looks rather impressive… for such a despised nuisance!]
Beautiful Pest! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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In a big way, no thoughts and feelings are merely yours; they are of all life and humanity. Use them but not for domination over the weak.
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[This is a Crab Spider with its victim… a Drone Fly. Crab Spiders, as you can see, are aptly named! They are very crab-like in appearance! They have the chameleon-like ability to change to the color of the flower that they are in; then they patiently wait for the prey to arrive. (Earlier posts of mine show yellow ones in yellow flowers.) Once I saw one in a white flower that was colored yellow and brown… and thought: “Wow… this little guy has it all wrong.” Upon closer examination, it was observed to be in the process of pursuing and eating Leather-wing insects that were mating and that happened to be yellow and brown in coloration! So, instead of the flower… the spider turned itself into the color of the insects during their mating season! Naturally, a mating Leather-wing will seek out another Leather-wing to mate with; the Crab Spider was not foolish after all!]
Like a lion with her kill. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
Before you pick garden flowers and place them in an indoor vase… look closely to be sure that no Crab Spiders reside in them! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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Don’t just look through the screen of what you’ve been taught! Perceive!
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[Green Lacewing insect resting on a blade of grass. They like to inhabit meadows and forest edges. They eat small insects, such as aphids and nymphs of scale insects and their kin. They lay their eggs on the bottom of leaves; the eggs hang from long silk-like stalks.]
Blending in with the foliage keeps you alive!… Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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It’s easy to conform and to blindly follow rigid patterns; it’s arduous to think for yourself and not merely follow the beaten path.
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[Ladybugs – Lady Beetles – as both adults and larvae prey on aphids (plant destroying insect pests) in open habitats. They hibernate, usually in groups, in the winter. The one pictured is one of the more rare species.]
Ladybug surveying the landscape from a good vantage point. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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Be careful about coming to conclusions about people and things; it may be a coming to a stagnant end psychologically!
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[Jagged Ambush Bug in a wild Yellow Daisy: They perch by day in flowers and mostly are “sit-and-wait” predators, attacking all kinds of insects, often insects that are much larger than themselves. They often even attack bees. They have powerful vice-like, mantis-like, front legs that are great for grasping.]
Patience is a virtue for a Jagged Assassin Bug in a wild Yellow Daisy Flower. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
. John Lennon was right: “Living is easy with eyes closed… misunderstanding all you see.”
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. [Strawberry Fields Forever. (Mushrooms in our lawn… and one of the reasons why one often dislikes to cut the grass!) Photo by Thomas Peace 2014]
Strawberry Fields Forever. (Mushrooms in our lawn… and one of the reasons why one often dislikes to cut the grass!) Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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Do not despise it for being little — and seeming small — for its smallness contains a largeness.
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Ant feeding on Milkweed plant leaf. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
Ants busy communicating while on Milkweed leaf. Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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Not: The less you care, the happier you will be. But: The more you care, the happier life and the world will be! (Anyway, you are not something truly separate from the world.)
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. [Though larvae of the Colona Moth – Haploa Colona – may, among other types of plants, feed on apple and peach trees (and I especially like peaches)… I like the moth a lot! They seem to be appearing more in northern areas (possibly due to global warming trends). The one in the photo was far from peach trees… in a natural prairie.]
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The Original Stealth Bomber! (Tiger Moth, Colona Moth) Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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