heading out to the Way Back with the bucket of pellets,  i am about to open the door and i stop…turn my head and look up

 

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above my head…maybe about 2 ft above my head and only a shape because of the brilliant SUN light,  a shape.   THE shape.   I did not see it,   i couldn't have.  My eyes are at about just over mid door height and i look at the door knob on approach.  So i didn't see it,  but the Brain did.  I LOVE when this happens,  when the brain,  the biological magician performs these feats of magic knowing.

So open the door slightly and with my hand, scoot him out….would have taken time but They were waiting for the pellets…loud and rowdy so i scooted him out and lightly wedged the door,  distributed the pellets and came back and 

yes,  oh, yes and eeeeeee the soft and oh so loving kind.  This is the first this year i've seen.  Maybe just a little over an inch long so not too young already.

 

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how they are so NOT shy,  coming toward the camera lense

 

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had all the Goats not been there,  i would have offered a hand and maybe could have gotten a close pic,  but the Goats were,  and they immediately were wondering what i was doing and gathering,  so I gave Thanks.  I gave the deepest Thanks to this Being for first coming in the house,  and then, waiting for me

Back before i had a screen door in the front door,  when the light would be on in the late evening,  almost always one would come in.   Then the table was where the Morning chair is,  a light,  books, papers on the table about 15 ft from the door and they would come directly to the table,  light there and then 

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around.  Walking so slowly,  so curiously over the books and papers,  around the cup,  finding some good place to 

Look at me.

The intelligence of them is so KIN.   I don't know how to speak of how much i love them.  So, today was a day of Celebration.  Praying Mantis.  Praying Mantis….I love you.

 

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OOna, looking back

Thought about how maybe taking pics of Goats everyday might be like almost some kind of Remedy,  like a Bach Flower Remedy.  So i'll try it.

 

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Jan the Dog Trainer's second Goat, Joey kidded…another buck and doeling.  This the buckling.  So i will choose between the one from a few days ago and this one that she referred to as really "flashy".  Tenzen did well.  

 

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Moth Moon is finished and in the Shop.

 

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18 responses to “the brilliance of the Brain”

  1. Liz Avatar

    We have herbs that the deer leave alone, but the grasshoppers love to eat them. So I’m in the habit of brushing them off (as if that’s going to make all that much difference). But the other day my hand froze in mid-strike as my mind said, “Don’t … it’s a mantis.” And so it was, a tiny, maybe half-inch bit of a praying mantis. Hopefully now grown up and eating the grasshoppers …

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    YES!…isn’t it amazing?…how you really don’t see it, but
    rather Intuit its Being There and STOP, mid motion and
    look
    this is just something i love so much…, this blind seeing that says LOOK!
    how the sense of it is different to the Brain. Grasshopper/Mantis…
    Does Mantis also participate in this?….Sending Vibes?
    I really think they DO. Communicate.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    and Walking Sticks.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    Ah your Praying Mantis arriving reminds me each year of my beautiful friend Richie, an expert in Taekwondo his form was the Praying Mantis, he could move energy better than anyone I have ever met before or since, I miss him…

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Oh, great green being! What a treat.

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  6. Dana Avatar

    I have never seen a praying mantis in real life. What a presence! Also, I love goats in bowls.

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  7. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    thank you for these images–orange/black/green…and resting goats. unplugged for the next week so will hold these dear.

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Just more of nature’s awesomeness……up close the mantis and in the background the mountains. As you would write beauty FULL!!!!

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  9. jude Avatar

    a tiny one here as well yesterday, no camera. first one in a while.

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  10. beth Avatar

    I love how the mantis heads move as they look at you. A palpable curiosity.

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  11. grace Avatar

    i sent a response to this???? where did it go?????
    moving Energy. the Praying Mantis are Masters of Energy

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  12. grace Avatar

    the males green, the females dry grass colored
    I love them beyond Love

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  13. grace Avatar

    if i could, i would send you one. They are so STRanGE and beyond
    so much…they are Human really, so familiar and funny and
    Great

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  14. grace Avatar

    the orange…well…just how it was to tweak the pic to make the
    Mantis appear…not so orange but just the color of the particle
    board in SUN

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  15. grace Avatar

    yes. Mantis and Mountains. How it is. Small Large. Same.

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  16. grace Avatar

    when they are tiny….but so totally and completely what/who they ARE!!!….i cannot. cannot. Love them enough.

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  17. grace Avatar

    My daughter doesn’t like them. She says she doesn’t like insects with necks and that always makes me laugh.
    maybe it’s the neck. ??????
    How they turn their faces to meet our own so precisely?????

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  18. saskia Avatar

    (s)he’s amazing

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