Oooh, pretty!
Praying mantis! And so well camouflaged in salvia!
Those were my first thoughts.
The WP photo prompt this week is fleeting…like beauty…life…thoughts…experience…
and though I chose not to publish these photos previously because they disturb me and I didn’t want to disturb you,
they perfectly illustrate fleeting as they catch the ephemeral beauty of nature
and how living requires eating so these photos also illustrate how fleeting life is.
The honey bee is caught,
savored,
beheaded
and further savored…
and I had to walk away from breathtaking wonder that shifted in a moment to revulsion though I recognize that the bee is the mantis and we are each both bee and mantis, and our moments as fleeting.
Wow, what a great series of photos!
Nice job E!
PT
Thanks!
What an amazing capture – both in real life and on film – lovin’ your blog, am so glad I stumbled across it!
Thank you so much, Joanne. I appreciate you taking time to read and also comment on my blog. Thanks too for inspiring a happy heart at my day’s start.
Stunning photos, Elizabeth. The Mantis is so elegant. It’s at first hard to even see the devastation for the bee. what a rare opportunity you seized. BRAVA!!
Thank you, Anita. I, too, was truly enchanted by the mantis’ elegance till it caught the bee.
Wow! These are amazing, Elizabeth. What a series! So alien-like in the last few as he chomps on the bee.
Thank you, Karen. It was a bit chilling.