Two creatures that fly; and some amazing sky.
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An ichneumon wasp hangs underneath a pineapple sage leaf on the kitchen window. It’s a parasitic wasp which lays its eggs inside caterpillars. The sharp poiny thing in its rear end is an ovipositor, not a sting.
A magpie. It kept its beady eye on me and hopped from branch to branch as I moved around under the plane tree. The light under the canopy was green, filtering through the thin new leaves.
Rain falls (at the top of the picture), but not near me.
Interesting clouds and colour (especially at the horizon).
Holy red-sky-at-night, Batman!
The setting sun fills the sky with colour. A rain storm fills the upper right of the photograph. But no rain fell close to where I was standing though.
[No saturation adjustment was made to either of these sunset shots, what you see is what I saw].
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