Because of the rain and high humidity, the fungi and mushrooms were there in a bewildering variety; I am also including the skink and lizard photographs here.

Q. If one has undergone a bereavement that still has that raw-wound quality, touch-and-I-wince, after nearly a month….what does one do that will provide a little comfort?

Here’s a TORTOISE BEETLE, one of the beautiful creatures we beheld on our trip to Thattekad, Kerala, where and I visited the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary.

Been busy with a wedding of someone who is like family to me. The wedding was held in a resort fairly close to home. There was a lot of greenery around…and I was delighted to spot a pair of SCALY-BREASTED MUNIAS proceeding to make a nest in the foliage.

I had, some time ago, made this post about palindromes, and today, palindromes figured on another mailing list I moderate.