Everyday starts with a transition from night to day. Life is interesting during periods of transition - and sunrise is one of those interesting intervals. No sun but interesting clouds
Then a chance meeting with Mr. Ansar Ahmad, Chief of Regent for Bingtan
Then an omlette - and the omlette man
The ingredients
The performance
Add eggs
Stir
Roll
Pick up
and plate
and a smile from a perfect exercise
Then a visit to the lotus pond
Blue lotus
Color burst
Blue lotus
Morning sun on the blossom - Attached to the stem on the left is a dragonfly nymph
A pink lotus pair
A bee searching for a way to the core of the lotus blossom. What follows are many images that illustrating the searching and eventual success in pulling one petal away from the core
Bee searching while a hopper looks from a safe distance. You can see that the hopper has been busy eating the white petals
A background blue lotus
Hopper watching the bee (hidden)
Searching
Probing
Probing
Probing
Pulling a petal (see the space compared with the left photo?
Success - he enters and extracts and exits
Unsatisfied - he continues to search
A tiger skipper on a lotus bud
Another view
Two blossoms
Stamen
A green grasshopper
Green grasshopeer
Lonely white lotus
Unfolding blue - the insect on the right of the stem is a dragonfly nymph (I think)
On the otherhand, maybe its not a dragonfly nymph - but an interesting bug
Dragonfly after having emerged from the nymph exuvia
Closer view of the dragonfly hanging on to the nymph exuvia
I think these are two dragonfly nymphs - post escape, i.e. 2 exuvia
C. Frank Starmer