Its only natural

                                                   Lots of everything in Penang

Some mornings we  would go down to the car park and be confronted with an apocalyptic scene. Give them credit, insects  know how to party. The floors would be covered in the remains from the previous night.

Other times there would just be collection of wings. What madness is this? Did the creatures just decide to jettison  wings en mass and walk out with a nonchalant whistle. Or is there some thing more sinister at foot? Are predators crashing the party and just leaving the broccoli ..sorry I meant wings















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Its a snail. That's obvious. It was a really big snail which is not so obvious. After this I decided to use the international scale of size, wife's hand ruler. I have checked with Greenwich observatory and this is quite legitimate.

 
We watched this thing lying on its back for some time before deciding it was safe to bring out our scale of size ruler. You have no idea how much I was wanted this thing to twitch and roll onto the wife's pinkie.











                                   Turtle living at the bottom of our condominium

I took a long time trying to get a photo of Mr Turtle. He was doing the poke head in, poke head out and not smiling for the camera trick. During this time I realised the ground next to him was moving. Took a moment to figure it out. There was hundreds of black baby frogs jumping away from Mr Turtle and my camera. I tried to get a photo but to small and nimble. Not me!! The frogs. The best I could do was them in pre-frog form. Yes, I snuck up on some unsuspecting tadpoles.












 I get that regularly where people mistake me for the caped crusader. Was not surprised to find the bat symbol projected onto the lounge wall. Looked out the glass sliding doors and realised my mistake. It was only  .............................. MOTHZILLA

            I just love the way he/she comes in bronze aluminium window joinery colour.

Footnote

For a more scientific explaination of  size and scale please watching the following education video. Have a pen and paper handy as you may need to take notes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh5kZ4uIUC0&feature=kp




cheers  mark , glynis  and serenity