(Voor de gelegenheid
blogt Lein in het Engels)
Have you heard of
Urban Jungle Bloggers?
*click*
to find out more about them.
In short:
they blog about the joy of greens
and started a platform
for other plant lovers to join them.
Lein has been following them for a while now
(To be more specific: since their start)
the Academy of Art&Design
where I spent one year)
and last month I decided to join them.
Despite all the doubts and what-ifs
(-I'm-not-good-enough)
....
(I could write a book about that)
I thought: what the hack
I love plants and i'm joining.
This month's theme: Jungle animals.
Yay!
Lein loves animals too :)
At Lein's place
there are plenty of them.
I could choose for the
ferocious jumping tiger
(Lola),
(roarrrrr!)
or the dangerous black panthers
(Pippa and Dokus)
(pretty dangerous, right?)
or the giraffe and the monkey
Or i could write about the
challenges
of having
pets AND plants...
but I decided to show you
how truly jungle my home is
with real animals on the loose:
My beloved stick insects, or walking sticks.
They live in their home,
a terrarium.
They live there
and thrive
on the hedera leaves I give them
they lay eggs
and hatch
they eat
they grow
they lay eggs
and on
and on.
This here is a baby :)
Every once in a while
a tiny someone
usually someone who just hatched
decides to
take a walk (haha) on the wild side
and leave the terrarium
through some teeny-tiny hole
(Which?!?)
(I never find the hole)
and go on an adventure.
Off to the horizon!
Or to the top of the steep cliff cupboard
(that round thingy is the eggshell)
Most times
I discover them pretty soon
and bring the little twiggy
back to his tiny friends
but sometimes....
...they find noms
and spend some time
on the loose
eating and growing.
Lein's plants don't always enjoy this...
If you let them, this is what remains...
But anyway
whenever I find one
I can only smile
and lovingly put twiggy back with his friends
and I keep wondering
about
which tiny hole it was this time,
and about how they survived
the prying eye of the ferocious big cats
(who would love a snack like this)
and how they found the plants
(quite a walk)
and I fantasize lots of exciting stories
about the adventurous walking sticks :)
Walking sticks/ stick insects
or Phasmatodea
*click*
are quite cool creatures.
Because they walk the walk
*click*
and
They. Got. Rhythm.
*click*
*click*
Hope I made you smile :)
Bye!
Lein
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