He had lost his way...all covered in a layer of dusty things.
I removed the dust and put him outside in the Erigeron flowers. I think he can find there a better place to hibernate than under the central heating in my studio.
I did not know that the name of this Gaura was; 'Swirling butterflies'!
Which reminded me of a painting I made some years ago. Its title was 'Out of the ashes".
When everything seems to be burned and lost...New life is coming forth from the ashes.
This is amazing to me.
Birds are losing their feathers.
I found a beautiful doves feather, with a bit orange purple in it.
One of the reasons is, I'm working on some paintings and then I am so absorbed in the painting that I forget a lot of other things. Like my coffee or tea sitting there next to me getting cold without having had a sip.
To me that's not a bad thing. I loose track of time and enjoy my journey of the painting.
Here is the result. Don' know yet if it is finished, for now I'm happy with it.
I remembered I had seen this kind of caterpillar years ago, but did not remember which specie it was. I saved him from the water and put him on a dry spot.
He looked to me rather big so he might be soon cocooning. He is a caterpillar of the Buff-tip, (Wapendrager)(Phalera bucephala).
He looks quite undone and scruffy and messy.
We sometimes look the same way, when we are having a bath...
She has bought last year a hedgehog-house and now the hedgehog sleeps in the house all winter and summer. On top of that, she feeds him(or her) every night with some yummy hedgehog-food. Which (s)he loves very much.
The last few weeks there is a visitor and now both hedgehogs are feasting on the yummy food and each other. Would there soon be hedgehog babies?
Even the snails are happy, not to be snacked for dinner.
I will send her this partycard in anticipation.
Somehow it got hidden under a pile of papers. I added some colors and there it is...
Happy bunnies.
I noticed that one of my roses, had blossomed again!
This is gorgeous rose...the colors the fragrance is exactly how I love it! I put the rose in a vase to be able to enjoy it during the day.
I noticed that a crawly creature had delighted in the leaves and wrote a song in them.
On my way I saw 2 hares in a meadow, chasing each other. Mostly you don't see them at midday, so that was a surprise seeing even 2!
Shortly after they started kickboxing. It looked amazing...how they were kind of fighting together. Later I noticed that one was chasing the other one away. Maybe the other tried overruling his territory. When the other was far away enough, the first one ran back.
It looked like a dance...though it was probably not, but I really enjoyed it. later I made a small doodle of the dancing, kickboxing hares.
Mostly they came once a day. In the beginning it was between 10 and 11 in the morning, but later they had another schedule for bathing.
Anyway, passion and patience did the job for me.
I also made some oil paintings. They are such inspiring beautiful birds.
So much orange/pink in a bird is astonishing!
This was not according to my plan!
I had the cocoon taken inside, on some branches and leaves in a jar, to be able to follow the process of transformation easily and keep my eye on it. I was really disappointed to notice the the ladybird had come out, without me.
And to make it worse... where is he? Now, roaming around in my house without food would be a small disaster. I looked for him everywhere on the walls and windows...no ladybird to be seen anywhere.
However, today my sister came along and I showed the small empty cocoon and told the whole story that I wanted to photograph or maybe film the whole process... She suddenly noticed the ladybird sitting under a leaf where he sat in hiding!
I was so relieved to notice he had not flown away, but had waited for us to see.
