What big eyes you have

29Oct07

One from the archives today. Well, it feels like a long time ago since we were in Japan, although in truth it has only been a month or so since we returned. This is one of the many, many dragonflies that we saw on our visit, posing for the camera at Nikko.
Today’s eye [...]

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Year of the Moth

30Sep07

The leaves are officially falling from the trees…. I saw it with my own eyes when we took a stroll in the wet Devonshire countryside this morning.  For me this year has been the year of the moth – the year when I stopped seeing them as something to dodge in an Italian toilet (putting [...]

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Japanese dragonfly

25Sep07

I’m back!  It’s cold outside and the leaves on the trees are turning brown.  My birthday is passed, our holiday is over, is it Christmas now…?
So first snap of the season is this dragonfly, taken outside the Imperial Palace gardens in Tokyo.  There were dragonflies everywhere we went in Japan, and they were especially numerious [...]

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