31 July 2017

Variable Dancer

I'm fortunate to live in an area where there are frequent bird and nature walks available. I often attend, and enjoy being able to benefit from the guidance of others with more spotting and identification expertise than I have. Yesterday's targets were dragonflies and damselflies, and I saw something land on the ground in front of me. It looked rather drab to my naked eye, but not so with a magnified view:


I thought the bright purple body was striking. Also, I was delighted to learn that this particular damselfly is known as a Variable Dancer. I wouldn't class myself as being even as good as Variable in that particular category. It could make for a fine album title, though.

08 July 2017

I hope this isn't a thing

So, I was entering household items into a shopping list on my iPhone, and one of them was toilet paper. After I entered this item's first word, one of the successors offered on the autocompletion bar was "selfie". I wouldn't have suspected that the resulting phrase would rank as highly popular, but I've been surprised before. I haven't asked Google in order to find out or to see what it might offer. Some things are better left unknown or unseen.