CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

It's late spring in Australia - the last month of spring, to be exact, so I thought I'd share a couple of butterflies that came to visit. At first glance, they don't look like much... and they're fairly well camoflauged. And then they start to open their wings, and we see a flash of promise. If we shift the angle, just a little bit... We saw more of the colour hidden inside And then a little more... Until the butterfly reveals its true colours...  ...and then it flies away.

While I was busy chasing wattlebirds and silver-eyed wrens, I noticed that the bees also liked the cherry blossoms - and who could blame them. Here are a few shots taken with the close-up lens (as I don't own a macro). It was a beautiful day in the last fortnight of winter, and the bees were enjoying the blossoms and the sunshine. I didn't know they liked cherry blossoms, quite this much, but they hummed busily around, stopping to investigate each bloom thoroughly, completely ignoring the camera as they did so, although, I;m sure they were aware of me.

I was reading over a post from a game friend on FB. She was waking as I was getting ready to go to sleep. She was wondering what the day would bring while I was wondering if my soon-to-be-two-year-old would actually let me get some sleep. She made me think about all the hours I spend at the computer, and reminded me of a post another game-friend had put up the day before. That post was one of those clichéd attempts at a joke. It warned of the ‘worst FaceBook virus yet’. Apparently this one was the ASTC (A*s-Stuck-to-Chair) virus, where victims are so absorbed in their FB activities that their children starve, their house grows untidy and falls apart with neglect, and their pets become dangerously obese from never being walked. You know the sort of post I mean. Anyway, it got me thinking about all the time I spend in front of a computer screen, whether it’s playing games, writing, or reading what others have written, and I wondered how many good things there were in a day that...