Some random evening when we had a strong urge to be near flora and fauna again (it was a while since we’d done that, on account of my EYAs), Daddy and I went to Hortpark. At the entrance we were greeted by this awwwfully moving sight:
A cherubic little girl feeding kois under the watchful eye of her doting father! Awww.
On the way to the parks, we saw another interesting sight:
Guess some people opt for a DIY zoom function.
Shall release an influx of flowery photos now:
This subtly reminds me of a guava.
Then came our prized catch for the day. Butterflies!
I’ve never been so close to a butterfly before, let alone see one so many times (there were quite a few in Hortpark that day; if you look carefully at all the photos here you’ll notice the patterns on their wings are slightly different), so I jumped at the chance and snapped away all I could.
I realized that butterflies have this habit of opening and closing the wings rapidly every now and then, but for the most part they settle on objects with their wings folded up. This is blur, but it was my best shot of the wings open.
A smaller, cuter but less fanciful breed.
A busy bee!
A confrontational bug! That’s a first.
I saw some unconventional things.
Scarecrows?!
A dead scarecrow! This one scared the lights out of me.
Get a room already!
I snagged another prized catch today, namely:
A baby dragonfly! At least, I think it is.
This adult was lingering nearby. Maybe they were related.
There was this once I wanted to step forward to snap something among some plants, and luckily I looked down before I did. The soil was covered with…
…weird crawly things! Goodness, I really felt a chill crawl up my spine then.
I didn’t mind this, though – at least it was pretty!
Towards the evening, unexpectedly, more bugs started revealing themselves. Around the time I was about to leave I spotted this.
Spot both!
