Determination

Searching for blips today, I narrowly avoided a painful encounter with hornets and decided to settle their hash before their nest got any larger. Huh! Shortly after smoking them out and thoroughly scorching the nest, I found they were busy rescuing the larvae and carrying them off to a new location. The hornet bottom left above has extracted an intact larva (looking slightly singed around the edges, I hope), nearly as big as himself, but others subsequently seemed to think it was worth rescuing even bits of larvae.

Hard to choose a photo today. HH took some beautiful shots of the early morning light over the mountains, particularly suitable as our house is called Arunachala (Mountain of Light in Hindi). The name was given by the previous owner and a photo of his guru still presides over the place. Still, posting HH's photo would be cheating ...

Don't know what happened - thought I had posted this blip yesterday, and when it failed to appear, posted it again this afternoon. No result again. Wonder if it will work this time.