Busy doing nothing
We saw this little chap hanging around in front of the house yesterday, just sitting on a pole waiting and watching to see what was going on.
A lot goes on around the front of our house, actually. There is some ‘no man’s land’ where the fig tree used to be, to the left, there is a ruined garden with an orange tree and a pomegranate tree, and the building opposite and below has a spectacular bougainvillaea. There’s also an unkept area right in front of us and a rickety old vine, so lots of wildlife in a small area. As the pomegranates are ripe right now, they have attracted some attention. There were a couple of ladies with a ladder, leaning it up against the ruined wall and climbing up to take what they could reach, and then there are the hornets…
The hornets seem to work a short, midday shift as they are rarely about before 11.00, but between then and around 14.00, the air is buzzing with them, darting about, banging into the walls, feasting on the fruit and then staggering off again. It’s quite a dance just below the balcony at that time of day, and they rarely blunder into the house and bang their heads against the windows. When they do, I try and put them out, or just leave them alone and let them get on with it.
Anyway… The question I posed the other day, what was missing from the photo? Well, I finally have the answer for you. Here’s the original image…
And here’s the one showing what we couldn’t see because of the humidity. Either that or someone moved the entire range and then snuck it back overnight.
