Life is so beautiful when you look through my eyes.
The Citrus butterfly stuck his straw shaped tongue deep into the throat of the flower here.
I focus many of my posts mainly on landscapes and nature scenes, but every now and then I like to do something different. I think most of us like change, as it delivers a fresh breeze of thought through our minds. Something that we regard as new, but in the meantime it is old and only presented in a different context. Many times when I read a book for the second time, I discover new things that I have not noticed at the first read. So, enough talk and let's see what I have for you today.
I saw that there was a bee on the lid of this glass jar and immediately I thought of Hive.
A beautiful jar complete with a wooden dipper.
And by now I think that you have figured that the content is the sweet stuff called pure honey.
A slice of buttered bread, with a slice of cheese and covered with honey goes down great with tea or coffee.
A little bee was collecting some pollen from a lotus flower.
This is a young Malachite sunbird that was also using his straw shaped tongue to sip some nectar from a flower.
Soon he will become an adult and he will put on a green suit, with some yellow under the wings and blue in the tail.
One thing that you might have noticed is that all of the insects in here are persevering in their lives and collecting the sweet stuff.
We also have a choice, persevere in our strive to make life better, or to surrender.
2. Perseverance
We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe, golden ears,
Unless we have first been sowers,
And watered the flowers with tears.
It is not just as we take it,
This wonderful world of ours
Life’s field will yield as we make it
A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't know why this came to my mind, but it is as it is. Someone said never to take anything personally and just to continue with life as usual. This is true as 90% of our fears and worries never take place and the other 10% we can manage. Some of us will run at the first sight of trouble ahead and others will simply stay and persevere. It is usually those that persevered that earn the crown.
Life can be beautiful, but as the poet said, it can be a harvest of thorns.
It all depends on what we sow, as we can choose to be kind, or to be the alternative.
And That's All Friends.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX7OHS Bridge camera.
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What a beautiful selection of photos Zac! That butterfly and the bee! Of course, my favourite is the malachite sunbird. So sweet so striking
Thank you kindly for the compliment and I share your love for the Malachites.
They look a bit multi colored at the moment, but in a month or two they will have their full green suits on, I saw that you guys are having a heatwave there and please take care in the sun.
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Wonderful photos, nature is like a book always inspires and gives new opportunities to discover something beautiful or interesting. Sometimes we don't pay attention to some simple things, but they cause admiration.
Thank you and I totally agree with you. It is also the small simple things in nature that makes it so interesting.
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Life is indeed beautiful. Many of us fall into the pattern of overthinking things and limiting ourselves because we believe we can't do or handle certain things. I am one of those people and I can honestly say that I'm working to not believe that lie anymore.
Beautiful pictures as always.
A life without borders and limits should be strived for, as we are all capable of so much more when we don't limit ourselves.
Thank you for the compliment.
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Life can be beautiful, just like you say and show in your photos, my friend 😊
Running away from problems is useless, because most of the time they follow you or wait for your return anyway 🤣 !LOLZ
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Thank you Hannes, and for some reason I just felt like doing something different 😊
That is so true and at the same time some other problem will appear that is basically the same as the previous problem that you ran away from. Life works like that, until you face up to it 😁 !LOLZ
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My pleasure Zac, and you did very well, my friend 👍
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Thank you Hannes, but sadly the post didn't do well. Not to worry, as I just keep banging away day by day.
Only when you confront the problem and change what caused it, can you overcome and move on. So many cannot do this and then it becomes a bigger problem 😉 !LOLZ
Cheers and thanks.
There will always be a post that doesn't do well and the next will be top again.
I can only agree, I have also run away from problems in the past.
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Yes, you are right and all that one can say is, Selah.
So did I and at times I still do, but it is never a good thing, as one has to learn. I think that most of us make the same mistake 😉
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what an incredibly beautiful post! That butterfly really caught my eye. I have a painting of one in my bedroom that I've held onto for years. It's one of my sister's originals, painted from life.... or rather post-life as it was one of her specimens. She had quite a collection and still has, although she stopped collecting in her early teens. That poem is incredibly inspirational. Thank you for those wise words.
Thank you and I also have a thing for butterflies. That's why we named our NPO papilloncharity, as Papillon is the French word for butterfly.
That painting sounds great and I think that it stirs our inner emotions for total freedom.
Glad that you liked the poem.
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