I hope the termites stay fat and happy in the forest and stay out of town.
I realize that the animals I have shown recently are not exactly cute. Crabs, bats, and termites are at the opposite end of the spectrum to the monkeys and dolphins that I showed a week or so ago. Sorry.
Update: Kate of Visual St. Paul daily photo site left a comment that included an Ogden Nash poem about termites, which I am adding to this post:
Some prized termite knocked on wood
and tasted it and found it good
and that is why your Cousin May
fell through the parlor floor today.
This poem has Ogden Nash's trademark twist at the end. Kate left a poem about crabs on my site a month or so ago, and who would ever think that she could find a poem about termites?
This week we ae showing photos of some fo the ancient Khmer temples of Cambodia ted on our Viva la Voyage travel photo site.
12 comments:
yikes, that is a termite mound. i would not want to lean up against this tree
I liked the bats and crabs, but these termites not so much.
It does look a little something waiting to hatch in an 'alien' movie or something Dave.
That is one slice of nature that I could do without.
I wouldn't think that termite home would be healthy for the tree.
Well, all I can say is that they are God's creatures, too. Perhaps I should find a poem about them?
I couldn't resist, David!
The Termite
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good!
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
Ogden Nash
Too much cuteness can be hard.
Odd seeing these in a tree. In South Africa, we saw loads of termite mounds growing up from the ground.
Termites in a tree??? Oh, the famous monkey-termites, I suppose. LOL
This looks familiar! :-)
Ooohh, its never a good sign seeing termites high up on the tree. Eeeks!
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