Getting Up Close And Personal ~ Orange Moth With Attitude

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been
sometimes been found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity—to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

Jane Austen: Pride And Prejudice Chapter 42 

Or, you can live in the here and now and enjoy the world as it unfolds. Last night M'lady saw an unknown shape in the shadows of our patio. Taking a look I proclaimed it to be a moth and returned to my jigsaw puzzle. 

This morning I set my camera up in a new way and set forth to find a subject or two for today's shoot. To my surprise and delight the moth was still there. Multiple shots later I'm a happy cowboy.

Please click me I am far and away more handsome full size

 But the moth was in a dangerous location. The dogs, a tuko? even a hungry spider could decide it was quite the tasty lunch. So, I gently picked it up, placed it in my hand, took it inside to show M'Lady and then placed it in a safer place in the garden.

I like to live in the here and now. 

Brian