One of the obvious advantages of now having a garden is that there should be candidates for my macro lens within easy walking distance of the front door.
A quick walk around the property this afternoon revealed this:
I decided that it probably wasn’t suited for close up macro work and I made a tactical retreat. Nearby there was this:
Probably also nearby was the animal that consumed the leaves; but it started raining, and I don’t shoot macro in the rain because of my advancing years my lens is not waterproof.
We have also seen two snakes, several butterflies and all manner of crawly things since taking ownership; so I am hopeful that my “stuff I saw in my garden” project will be fruitful.
Comments 🔗
2014-08-24| genuinej saysSnakes eh? I think I’d be thinking about moving back!
2014-08-25| Ray saysSnakes in the house is the next experience, followed by the very venemous giant centipedes. And don’t I just know it!
I look a total Pratt walking around the house in “up to the waist” fishermans waders but I ain’t taking any chances.
2014-08-25| Pete saysYou’ll probably find that the butterfly was the end product of the critters that ate your leaves. And heed Ray’s warning about the centipedes. You may not have come across them on the umpteenth floor of your luxury penthouse condo before. Thais call them ’takarp’, and they are particularly nasty things; one bite from them will ruin your fortnight.
2014-08-25| **** sayshttp://www.pattayaunlimited.com/thailands-monster-poisonous-centipede/
Two weeks ago I was sat (minus waders) barefoot at home watching a movie. I felt something crossing my foot. Looking down i saw the above.
I got lucky - it didn’t!
I’m not joking. When the rains come - these things do, and they’re bloody dangerous.
Enjoy your garden!!!!!!!
p.s. Homepro for waders.
2014-08-25| Ray sayshttp://www.pattayaunlimited.com/thailands-monster-poisonous-centipede/
Two weeks ago I was sat (minus waders) barefoot at home watching a movie. I felt something crossing my foot. Looking down i saw the above.
I got lucky - it didn’t!
I’m not joking. When the rains come - these things do, and they’re bloody dangerous.
Enjoy your garden!!!!!!!
p.s. Homepro for waders.
2014-08-26| Grant saysOh Ray, you’ve outed yourself! The steel blue-grey ones with the orange feet, heads and pincers are the best. They’re around the size of a good sausage and move with the speed of a Scotsman chasing a rolling sixpence…
2014-08-26| Spike saysWhy didn’t you bastards warn me about this earlier; or at least not plaster it all over the comments where she who must be obeyed will see it? The house is now up for sale and we are looking for a condo at least twenty floors up. Meantime she has taken up residence in the bath.
2014-08-26| Chang Noi saysDo something … panic! Do not worry we did live for 8 years in the jungle (15 km out of the concrete jungle called Pattaya) and we only had once a cobra and the neighbors made soup of it. We also has a few small green snakes but according to the neighbors you can not make soup of them. We had occasionally some chickens what our cats did like and a dog what our cats did not like. We once has a elephant but it came together with a few nut-heads asking for money to buy food for the elephant. But be aware of funny little animals with big tails that you see walking over the electric wires in the street (our cats did like them) …. but they like to live in cars also and eat your electric wires.
2014-08-26| Ray saysIn the bath?
Just make sure the plug is a good fit………… And use it!
Say no more.
2014-08-26| Grant saysThe bath isn’t safe! Ours fills up with the endangered whistling cockroach when the weather’s right and those dull black sideways-tailed scorpions the rest of the time…