Tiny Watermelon

Tiny newborn watermelon next to dime

Red lily beetle on Queen Anne's Lace

Red Lily Beetle, criocère du lis, Lilioceris lilii, on Queen Anne's Lace flower. They are an invasive species from Europe that I haven't seen before. 

Angsty Ants

Ants who have made a nursery in an outdoor clock carry their eggs to safety after I open it to change the battery

Can't be that hard.

I realized that I haven't read a novel or even a non-fiction book in years, so I've started reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. All seven volumes. In French.

White Passionflower

White Passionflower, Passiflore blanche

Johnny Clegg, RIP

Johnny Clegg died today. I got to talk to him in Sainte-Foy after a concert around 1989. He told me how to say Cetshwayo, a Zulu king, the right way.

Clegg (white trousers) with Savuka

I remember watching the band sign autographs - one woman turned the paper sideways and make her signature from the top to the bottom, and starting from the end of her name to the beginning. I asked her why, and she said sadly that she could not read. She made the shape of her signature perfectly legibly and I could read each cursive letter. The Apartheid regime intentionally undereducated black people.

Shinleaf Flowers

Shinleaf, Pyrole elliptique

Pyrola elliptica, Charlottenburgh Park, South Glengarry twshp, Ontario