Category: Animals
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Blending In
Out in the Grinds earlier this month, something moving caught my eye on the Little Island out on the Lake. No, it wasn’t the goose, but this chap: Maybe it is my tired eyes playing tricks on me, but is there something lurking at the water’s edge just beneath the turtle? It isn’t visible in…
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Double Wordle: Wings and Claws
My feathered friends and I like to sit and laugh, At the exploits of the clot, Mr Jinx the cat He thinks we don’t see him as he follows us Then decides with a sigh And a tail’s swish enough’s enough He’d chase us around Planet Earth If his while it was mostly worth… And…
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Wordle: New Valentine
Her prayers had been answered… ‘Though Cupid’s soldiers had misheard And instead of the body that she dreamed of Stood before her something she did love Large brown eyes to melt her heart of stone Wet nose and mouth chewing a bone A small furry bundle carved to perfection ‘He’ll open doors’, she thought in…
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Natural Beauty: Fossils
Fossil Inspired, anyhow. Today’s #WORLDWATERCOLORGROUP watercolour has been inspired by the Asteroceras Obtusym, otherwise known as the Obtuse Star Ammonite, which I’m taking to be a well-known fact. According to Wikipedia, this is an extinct species of cephalopod of the Ammonite sub-class. They were carnivores, nektonic at that. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived around the…
