We are being watched

"No one would have believed that
in the last years of the 19th century
that human affairs where being watched
from the timeless worlds of space
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized
as someone with a microscope studies creatures
that swarm and multiply in a drop of water
Few man even considered the possibility of life on other planets
and yet across the gulf of space
minds immeasurably superior to ours
regarded this Earth with envious eyes
and slowly and surely
they drew their plans against us."

Jeff Wayne - The War of the Worlds

I've got a bit of a bug - probably just man flu - but I've ended up having to come home from work early and this is my emergency blip.  Its actually the fence that separates our drive from our neighbours, but I fancy that you can see "things" in the knot holes, whorls and lines of the grain.  Probably just my imagination and a slight temperature, but then again ....