We had a couple of visitors in the garden today. Besides the usual butterflies, a hummingbird moth came to check out the flowers. Why do hummingbird moths have fluffy tails? That's just wrong, on an insect. Hummingbird moths are a little creepy.
A dragonfly also visited, and stopped to rest on the dead hardenbergia. I don't know why the hardenbergia died. It just did, quite suddenly. The dragonfly didn't seem to mind. 
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I have noticed that I get a lot of hits from people searching "present simple" and "ESL," and assume that this is language teachers looking for ideas or lesson plans. The following links are good places to start.
ESL Lounge Here you will find lesson plans organised by level. A fantastically useful site for busy teachers, and easy to navigate.
British Council Here lesson plans are organized by topic. There are more teaching activities in the 'downloads' section.
The Internet TESL Journal
They have not updated this page for a while, but there is still a lot you might find useful.
Humanising Language Teaching
This is an online journal, good for ideas, inspiration, and especially good towards the end of semester when you're feeling not quite human.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Almost too much to wade through, but a very useful resource. Lots of links to other sources.
Karin's ESL PartyLand
This is a page specifically dealing with teaching simple present and present progressive. I have not tried any of these, but there are a lot of ideas here, and they look good. At the very least you will be inspired.
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Still would love to know how you get such sharp and gorgeous pictures? Special camera, or???? I can't seem to get good pix with my Nikon CoolPix....hmmm
I agree with Kay, your macro photos are fantastic. What camera & lens are you using?
I'm using a DSLR - an Olympus E510 I got last year, or was it the year before? It was worth paying for a better camera, as you've noticed - it takes lovely shots. But I didn't use the macro lens for these shots, as I couldn't get close enough. I used a zoom (the lens kit zoom, nothing special), and cropped the pictures.
But my old camera (a point-and-shoot Olympus) was pretty good, too. I'm not a knowledgeable photographer, so a good camera really help. (I also edit a lot - I take dozens of pictures to get one halfway good one. In fact I'm a better editor than photographer.)
As the others have noted, these are great pictures! The moth is rather sci-fi-looking, but I rather like that in a moth. Dragonflies are always photogenic; you've captured this one at an uncommon angle.
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