Moths 2

This furry body has been sitting on the over head door light all day....I think it´s a Poplar Hawk Moth from similar photos I´ve been able to find on the internet. It measures 7 cms from wing tip to wing tip and again seems to be recently hatched as it is in perfect condition. 

Jade plant

This is my biggest Jade plant, I´m totally crazy about them and can´t even bear to throw individual leaves away when they fall off or are `helped off´ by some passing furry monster. However, things are now getting somewhat complicated space wise and I just can´t really afford to have anymore little plant pots with cuttings occupying more floor space but I think that beautiful Jade could do with a little pruning...help!!!!

Rumi

¨ Out beyond the ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field, I´ll meet you there.¨  Rumi.

                                                                 

                                             

Cats

Love this

Iris

The large bearded irises have started to flower and this is a close up of one of them followed by two altered images of the same shot.

Tree Peony

The tree peony has finally bloomed too and this time I tried putting a piece of white paper behind the flower so as not to see so much of the foliage. 

Moth

Yesterday morning just before 7 am when we opened the door to let the dog out we found this amazing creature clinging to the door frame, a Great Peacock Silk Moth which must have recently hatched from it´s cocoon because it was absolutely pristine. It measured 14 cms from wing tip to wing tip. It stayed in the same place until the direct sunlight reached it at about 3 pm and then it slowly lifted up it´s wings and antennae, as can be seen from the second photo, and launched itself off into the trees with hardly a flap. Apparently there are 5 of these huge night flying moths native to Europe and 3 in Andorra. We have often seen the caterpillars, huge, fat and yellowish green with light blue hairy warts all over them. Hopefully this wonderful moth manages to find himself (apparently the females don´t have feathers on their antennae)  a mate and not end up as a meal for some fat greedy Jay of which we have an abundance here!!

Peonies

At last the magnificent plant peonies have bloomed! It´s hard to do justice to their beauty though. I´m just waiting for the tree peonies to bloom now and their blossoms are even larger and more extravagant than these.........yum....... one of my favorite flower beings, although as with colors, I hardly ever met one I didn´t like !!!