Ain’t nature great?? To think we’re just a tiny cog in this mighty machine. Nature is art.
Australia – Macquarie Lake – patterns of bark, eggs, termites, birds and urchins.
Happy Easter – A pagan festival of spring!
The festival of spring. When the land is reborn and bursts into green. A fertility festival of life.
After the barren winter when the trees lose their leaves, the ground becomes brown, the cold and damp freeze the soul, there is warmth again.
The sun shines. The leaves shoot back out from seemingly dead branches. It is the true resurrection.
The world is reborn. The birds sing in the trees and select their mates. The creatures build nests and prepare for families. All is alive.
The babies are born. Their cuteness inspires.
Regeneration is the message.
There is plenty to eat once again. The dark, cold days of hibernation are behind us again.
It is the time for food and merriment.
We celebrate with the giving of eggs – the fertility symbol of life. The world is reborn.
We celebrate with delight at the young creatures born – the Easter bunnies live.
This is the time to rejoice! We are alive! All is right with the world again! The dark days are over!
This is a festival that goes back into time to the days before memory. Rejoice as our ancestors did. Life is beautiful. Love is in the air.
Sex!!! Part 2
Fish have a common cloaca. The common cloaca is a chamber into which faeces, urine, sperm and eggs are all passed to be removed from the body. A common cloaca is not a problem for aquatic animals. Sexual reproduction is where gametes, sperm and eggs, join to form a zygote which develops into a new organism. Sexual reproduction, unlike asexual reproduction, enables variation. Variation is a good thing because it allows organisms to adapt to changing environments. Hence most organisms use sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction is very easy in water. The female fish deposits her eggs on the river or sea bed. The male fish swims over the eggs and squirts sperm over them. The sperm swim through the water to fertilise the eggs. Easy!! This is the result of sex: