Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Usually when I visit Duke, I stay at the Millenium Hotel which is within walking distance of Duke. It is a pleasant walk because I can change my mind and walk towards Hillsboro Road. Along the way are plants and small insects and here is what I found

When I was a kid - picking honeysuckle and biting the end and sucking out the fluid was simply the greatest

but being stung by a bumble bee was not fun

A pink flower

and a white flower

and a pink and white flower

This grasshopper was resting on a blackberry stalk. I love the blackberries and blackberry pie - but the thorns (under the grasshopper) were no fun

There were many red ants poking around these little white flowers

Sometimes hunting in pairs

and sometimes alone

Digging into the flower - like hunting for buried treasure

Two can dig faster than one

Head down

and looking

A larger view

and a lightning bug also joined the hunt

and was quite the hunter

A sort-of yellow flower

and a dandelion

A few interesting flowers from the Duke Gardens: An inverted lily

and a pretty flower

C. Frank Starmer

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