December 8, 2012

This tiny Jumping Spider was wandering around on a small battered 

silver jug that I have used as a planter. The tarnished silver creates a lovely background.

Despite the little Jumper's size it already has very distinct markings.

December 7, 2012

Big, bigger, biggest. 

Quite an obliging (unidentified) creature!!

It let me get closer and closer and then suddenly decided that I was 'pushing it', and took off

December 6, 2012

While trying to photograph a horde of little butterflies flitting around 

the flowering weeds in the overgrown backyard, 

I spotted fairies dancing around this little mushroom in the undergrowth.... 

By the time that I had crawled closer, been covered in blackjacks, attacked by a thousand hungry mosquitoes and finally got the subject into focus, the fairies were gone :)

Jokes aside - it really is a jungle out there! I was quite worried that I might be attacked by 

something much larger than a mosquito!