The rather lovely, and elusive, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, sticks her eggs one at a time to the undersides of the Desert Rose leaves. After hatching, the grubs grow to be enormous caterpillars which have a devastating impact on my poor potted plants.
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Lizard seems quite relaxed as it takes in the view of our garden from the top of a shrub I have hacked a bit [i.e skillfully pruned].
He needs to be careful, though, as several of his brothers and sisters have been captured and brought into the house by the cats. A line of road-making hardware...highway 24 in being converted into a four-lane, divided carriage-way. It is about 0615...the drivers will come to work at about 0700. When this 70km of roadwork is complete, I will be able to travel all the way [except for the first 8km] from home to Bangkok [400km] on divided carriage-way.
When I first came to Thailand I was told Isaan [NE Thailand, where 20 million of the poorest, happiest Thai people live...many of them ethic Khmer peoples] produced some of the World's Best Silk and silk fabrics. So, I kept my eyes open for a big silk farm/factory, where I might visit and come to understand the silk lifecycle. It turns out there is no big factory. Isaan silk is created...grub to garment...in thousands of homes. Here is Na's Cousin, at her weaving loom, under her house in a village not far from where I now live in Isaan. She grows the worms, processes the cocoons, dyes the silk, weaves the cloth. Her product is wonderful, and unique. Here are some of her home-made tools: Here is Na in a sarong made from the material her cousin wove. This image was made at our House Blessing party. My sarong was made in a Roi Et Province village as a wedding present to me from Na's Step Grandmother...she also executed the entire silk lifecycle:
The Village temple [wat], when a few of the monks are practicing a bit of chanting and their audience is small. I have seen more than 600 people in this wooden temple, but not today.
Strange things happen when you photograph a fallen frangipani bloom floating in a tiled swimming pool...ain't surface tension a wonderful thing!
These lizards are successful urban dwellers...this male, in full mating costume, patrolled the shrubbery near the swimming pool in out Bangkok condominium complex as he sought the company of a gal lizard.
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