Posts by ChrisW
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Like a ball on the wire
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Full moon rising tonight - a double moon for double the tidal force?
On reflection, perhaps not.
This the Harvest Moon - a night to enjoy
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On the riverbank
the light of last night's ~full moon
is overpowered by a sponsoring electricty company's floodlights, on a fresh paint-job on an old building off-stage.
The ducks basking on the point at left are confused by night and day? -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to JacksonP,
Thrush?
Starling.
Often it's hard to see the tui for the trees.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Thanks Chris, I won't be seeking a literal message in the leaflets!
Update on the competitive scrap - the lighter-coloured ants have fully taken over - no sign of the dark shiny ones. The colony is active and well-organised in the warmth of the day, two trails of workers heading out empty and bringing back food, another set bringing out sand a grain at a time and adding it to the surrounding pile before rushing back for another.
The artwork is trashed, most of the pieces far scattered, hauled beyond the sand zone and dumped. Philistines! Was it ever thus?
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
the Dung Beetle segment
That dung beetle goes well beyond the Sisyphean - clearly a super-human.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
And thanks Ian for the AntyChristo reference and link, thence Over The River and more resonances with my riverside doorstep including something of the (yet to be realised) silvery wrinkled fabric panels. Doorstep here this morning before the early sun patches filtered through the trees, the ant-work just past the mid-point of the centreline.
And rather than AntyChristo, perhaps an ant-scale MonteChristo on the basis that the ants have made their art installation on the flanks of a low-angle volcano of their own construction, as possibly to be seen in photo-reply to Islander.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Islander,
Insects create art?
No argument from me on this one, Islander :-) .
Here's a simple artless documentary photo of the wider context in support of the art-work case.It contains cultural references –
Assuredly those are not the long boards of ageing ant surfers, but the fallen leaves of the nearby Metasequoia glyptostroboides = dawn redwood tree – technically they are leaflets rather than leaves, so also the conveyers of messages, information, polemics …
And this remarkable tree species is from central China (where it is critically endangered in the wild, and first recognised as a ‘new’ species as late as in 1941. This specimen is of the oldest cohort in NZ, grown from seed distributed in 1948, planted on what is now the edge of my place in 1949.)And on second studied look at the art-work, there seems a certain Chinese style to it, perhaps in something like Chinese character(s) shall we say literally? Chris W in Beijing – is this too fanciful?
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Bleeding eyes
Or tinsel inside the windows!Always knew you were birdshit artists :-)
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Middle of the day and it's all go in the ant world, the ant-artic work is dishevelled. But the pattern of ant movements is er-ratic, doesn't seem a happy cooperative venture, are those two different species?
In fact looks like a serious scrap - is there an accommodation shortage and competition for the choice high-density housing?
