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My nothing particularly noteworthy lunch hour
<div class="text-justify">Been a good couple of very busy days. I was up at 4am yesterday to start working around loadshedding. A LOT of loadshedding. 

We're on stage 6 now and they've just increased the range to include the possibility of stages 7 and 8. Fun times ahead.

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It's weird to eat breakfast at 4:45 in the morning unless you're used to that kind of thing. I generally don't eat breakfast at all, but yesterday I did. Change is good and I've realised that my ability to bend with these unfortunate changes without entirely snapping a blood vessel in my brain is actually commendable and I'm proud of it. Adapt or die. 

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Yesterday during a 4hr long stint of *electricity gone bye-bye*, I had used up my laptop battery and my phone battery too. I'm not equipped with all the gadgetry to charge anything by solar so I decided that I'd call it my lunch hour and I took my DSLR outside for a date. We had a bit of a leg stretch together and to let my mind do something other than freaking out about what I now couldn't get done until someone flipped the switch back on. 

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It was late afternoon and the shadows stretched out like a cat when they first wake in the morning, all slinky like. 

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The first ~~few~~ many shots I took aren't here. Blur. Blur. Blur. FFS stop shaking. Why are you shaking? Breathe. In. Out. Adjust your footing. Focus. About forty shots later, there was a visible difference and I wasn't erasing almost every photo I took. I eased into my subject matter more and more, lay back on the grass to snap a stink bug or pea flower, my mind distracted by the beauty of the contrast ... it stopped nattering at me. 

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There were things that I so often overlook. The little Dr Suess puff balls that seem like the perfect chair for a Who. I listened but I didn't hear any Whos down in Whoville. 

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These are simply images of things that I found around the garden. There is nothing particularly noteworthy about any of them other than the fact that they ARE. Captured moments of contrast.

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There were interactions that I watched in amusement between geckos chasing each other up down and all around the picket fence posts. Little paper wasps doing a funky kind of dance where they would touch each fence post tip with their toes as if using them as stepping stones, then alight once more into flight. "Ooh wait, what's that? Another waspy coming my way? Who are you? What you up to in my neck of the woods? Hey wait, come back here! I'm gonna come with you"....Bzzzz and away they went. Silently I immersed myself in this little world of nothing particularly noteworthy outside. But activity everywhere if you take the time to observe. The world still continues. The shadows still move. The moss still sends up flowers. The dew still falls. 

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I felt like I was witnessing something transformative. Perhaps I'm just going mad, that could very well be the case too, but whatever it was, it FELT. It felt wholesome, like I was within and encapsulated, welcomed, a part of the wasp dance.</div> 

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<sub>All images are my own. Camera: Canon 60D with Sigma combo 70-200 Standard 200-300mm Macro lens 1:4-5.6; + Hoya linear polarising filter</sub>

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@bertrayo ·
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Hey, Andy,

If you're going mad, let me tell it's a beautiful hue of loco! 

It's a beautiful thing what you have written here. The glimpse of introspection plus the details out if your garden are subtle and sublime. It feels like I'm there waiting for a Who to speak up "We are here!". Or watching the clumsy flutter of wasps playing in the fence.
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@andrastia ·
Hey AndrΓ©s

How are you doing? 

Thank you for reading my ramble and walking through my words and photos. I tell people I'm ok with my kind of crazy 😊 some people understand, some people don't and both are fine because I can share these oddities here without having to endure sideways glances πŸ˜‚

Thank you for your lovely comment, I'm glad that you could hear the Who's answering. 

Have an awesome day/night
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@bertrayo ·
I'm on a kind of creative block but working my way around it. And about the kind of crazy, as long as it isn't asylum-required, I think it's ok. It also works fine to get people off the track. You know we are not made for everybody. πŸ˜‚

Have a lovely day!
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@corvidae ·
We're all mad here...
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@dandays ·
*Good morning.*

I have a pair of <a href=https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1BIjPRXXXXXXyXFXXq6xXFXXXE/AUKEY-Power-Bank-Quick-Charge-3-0-5000mAh-Mini-Cylindrical-Phone-Poverbank-Portable-External-Battery-Fast.jpg>these</a> I try to keep charged. They stay in the backpack for travel days but you never know when politics or something throw loadshesding in the mix for whatever reason.
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@andrastia ·
Hello Dandays

Thanks for stopping by. 

Yes I need to get some of those too, I have a few powerbanks but they are rather old so don't do what I'd like them to. 

I'm kinda sick of this load shedding nonsense but at least it forces me to take a walk every now & again and get some pics. 

Hope you guys are well. Have a nice day
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@hivebuzz ·
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@riverflows ·
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Thank goodness for nature and photography to pull us out of one world into another huh? I can't believe you have to put up with these power issues. Gorgeous photos xx 
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@andrastia ·
Hi River, how flows it? That's my only attempt at a play on "how goes it?" 🀣

Thanks bud, yes these power outages really do test patience and resolve, but this is the kind of thing that is an upside to it I guess. 

Hope you are well, is it getting crazy cold there yet? 
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@riverflows ·
Oh yeah it's been icy and I've had no tolerance either due to covid. Sat in the sun for a bit today on front deck though, that was nice.. pretended we were somewhere warm for a bit...
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@tattoodjay ·
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All such awesoem images,
you should be proud that you have adapted to the nightmare you are facign with such high amonuts of load shedding, and glad you were able to slow down take a breath and get taking photos and taking your mind away from everything else

Stay strong and positive

Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)
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@andrastia ·
Hi @tattoodjay 

Thanks for the comment and reading through my post. It was a good opportunity that I think I grasped with both hands, I got some cool shots but most importantly it was a good hour of watching the world around me and getting immersed in it. 

Have an awesome weekend. 
Cheers
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@tattoodjay ·
My pleasure to visit your post 
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