VOTE FOR THE EARTH – Switch off your lights for an hour!
As I type this post, Sydney becomes the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change. From the Great Pyramids to the Acropolis, the London Eye to the Las Vegas strip, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries planned to join in the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored event, a time zone-by-time zone plan to dim nonessential lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. (By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press Writer )
My clicking these photographs started with this particular bug. We were setting off one morning when my son spotted it & asked me to take a picture. I couldn’t as we were already running late, but I knew I had seen it on my Curry tree in our yard because it slept there at night. 
There were insects of all sorts enjoying the Spring blossoms on our tree – bees, butterflies, wasps, bugs, flies & ants too. Complete unity in diversity, & with so much colour. The tree in itself is a boon. It gives us fresh curry leaves all year around, & is a nesting ground for doves & nightingales, and sometimes the sun bird. These days it’s the pretty Spring blossoms that keep me enthralled, & the winged creatures seem like a bonanza. 
Vote for the Earth, switch off your lights, or our future generations might not be able to experience such simple beautiful pleasures!
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
17 Comments
Anna
Hi Deeba,
Im a regular visitor at your blog,though this is the first time im leaving a comment.Actually cudn’t stop doing so,seeing such wonderful pictures.You are so talented..cooking,baking,decorating,photography,the list seems to be endless!!Ur outstanding..keep it up!!By the way,which camera do you use??
Bellini Valli
We will definitely be eating by candlelight at 8:30 this evening. We have voted for the Earth where we will continue to see beautiful creatures like those you have photographed Deeba:D
meeso
Your pictures really show the beauty and diversity of nature!
Pinky
Hi Deeba
I did vote for the earth hour & also switched the lights but only for 1/2 hour. I have tried to pass on the message to all my friends……in mysore there is very little awareness abt this,my neighbours taught it was very weird of me dng this.Only after reading ur post did i came to know abt this. & ur photos are always superb.
Laurie
Deeba such gorgeous photo’s! We too are voting earth with lights out tonight.. I love your tribute! 🙂
Helene
Thanks for reminding me.
Love your gorgeous pictures today.
Arlette
thanks for the reminder Deeba,
your have a complete talent, gorgous photos, makes me wants to be a child again and go play with them.
beautiful work Deeba!
diva
thanks for the reminder. happy earth hour!! beautiful photos deeba..i love bees 🙂 xx
Bharti
Beautiful pics Deeba. We just finished Earth hour. Had fun with the kids snuggling in bed by candle light and telling stories!
A_and_N
Loved the pics 🙂
I did switch off all the lights. A and I sat eating cake 😀 we baked earlier in the day and getting all romantic 😉
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Was planning to read under the candlelight, but ended up going out with some friends. but hey, we did use minimal lights where we went, and my house lighst and appliances are definitely turned off, so technically I was participating in earth hour too.
It’s such a great cause.
Arwen from Hoglet K
Beautiful photos! You’re lucky to have so many lovely insects in your garden. I hope we’ll all be enjoying these kinds of natural beauties into the future.
burpandslurp
loved this post, and your noble persuasion to save the earth to the online community! do you know we had this event going on all the way over to Singapore?
coffeegrounded
A beautiful post, Deeba. Thank you for all of the wonder that we have been granted.
Ivy
A lovely post Deeba and there’s a lot each one of us can do to keep our planet alive.
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I love the photography here and all the recipes seem really yummy. There’s so many choices to try and so little time but I’ll have to settle on one of your recipes for sure.
Sebastian
Marija
Beautiful photos Deeba!