fishing in the sky ocean, fast and fugitive

[asakiyume]

This is the season for tiny green inchworms to be suspended from nearly invisible strands, which they're climbing either up or down. Someone in the sky ocean is fishing.

fishing (photo by Chris Kendig)


I suppose the fisher might catch some worm-eating birds? Robins, maybe, or starlings. Or maybe a bluebird. They generally eat insects and berries, but they "have also been observed capturing and eating larger prey items such as shrews, salamanders, snakes, lizards and tree frogs," says the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I'm sure a floating inchworm is not beyond the skills of such a potentially fearsome hunter. And yet if it takes this inchworm . . .

Then again, maybe sometimes you can catch people this way.

(photo from Lovebryan.com)


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Isn't it funny that a fugitive dye--a dye that runs away--isn't fast, and in fact a dye that sticks around is what we call fast. You'd think a fugitive, fleeing, would like to be fast. Different senses of fast though: the permanent dye is steadfast.



fleeing, but not fast

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*delights so, so much in this post*

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

^_^

love this little inch worms

[seuzen.livejournal.com]

After years of not logging on, I was inspired by the bright green-ness of these little inch worms. This is the time of year when I feel like I have super vision, too. I love that feeling...though I'm not sure I'd love to eat one of those little critters :-)

Re: love this little inch worms

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing that the login still works? I love seeing you here!

Yeah, if I'm going to eat worms, I'd prefer them to be gummy worms.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

The elementary school I went to had (I think) elm trees shading the lunch area. At one time of the year we'd be eating and these horrid little green worms would come reeling down into our faces, our food, or down our backs! I'd forgotten about them until seeing that picture. (hysterical repression?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's funny, there are lots of drawing things that I don't care for, but these guys I always liked! On the other hand, I never had to suffer an assault of lots of them at once. . . .

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Ah, I haven't seen one of these wee beasties in a while! (I'm rooting for the inchworm eating the dude.Five kwatloos.)

I loved your thoughts on dye. I think we should have a new shade of purple: Slow Mauve. :)

[sovay]

(I'm rooting for the inchworm eating the dude.Five kwatloos.)

+1.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Well now I'm going to have to bet on the dude just as a hedge.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Slow Mauve sounds like an invention of cucumberseed--I like it!

And three cheers for *any* one who bets with kwatloos (or kwatloops, as we called them here in the wanderer's hut)--we also bet exclusively in this currency!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Good grief. I found this:

http://firehouse12records.com/track/adagio-slow-mauve-scribblings

...but don't play the track; it's utter pants.

[sovay]

fishing in the sky ocean, fast and fugitive

THAT IS A GREAT LINE.

run--run WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think the concept of fugitive dyes is the BEST EVER.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I remember those inch worms from growing up. I loved them almost as much as I loved June bugs!

Thank you so much for sharing. I don't think we have them here, though sometimes we do have June bugs...and we have great lizards!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Just don't let any hungry and fearsome bluebirds get at your lizards!

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Do they eat lizards? I had no idea! Out here, it seems to be the hawks and falcons that eat everything. Though the crows will kill and eat other creatures, too.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

So much fun in this post. Thank you!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:D My pleasure always!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I love that purple swooshie one!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Made with one of the finished-blooming iris blossoms! Now if only that color was permanent....

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Someone in the sky ocean is fishing.

I love that image.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

This is a single line--wait till you see their Seine nets!

[snakypoet]

See, this is why I could never leave LJ permanently — I'd miss such enchantment. (Can I have your imagination when you've finished with it?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'll be here as long as there's an LJ--drop by any time!

(I keep up with you both through your crossposts to LJ and through FB)

[snakypoet]

I know. :)

[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

:D

*chomp*

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

(Such an awesome tattoo--people have such a great sense of humor)

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love those kinds of observations about words--thanks!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My pleasure!

[avalonestel.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, the inchworms are so cute! <3

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Aren't they? I love them.

[inspirethoughts.livejournal.com]

Fishing from sky..what a lovely concept. Although I always wondered how these worms climbed.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know; they seem almost to be floating!

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

And up the starling was drawn by its beak-- up into the sky. Forever.

It looks eager, yet a tear dropped from its eye. I went closer, looked-- floating, a sliver of moon.

ghostly galleon

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Celestial fishing vessel

[dudeshoes.livejournal.com]

Not crazy about those worms but I realize they feed birds. I wish the birds would devour them all before they poop all over the terrace and make the ground too slick for toddlers.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I know that gypsy moth caterpillars can be so noisy eating leaves, and so noisy pooping, that you can actually hear them. But these little guys I never see in such great numbers--I've never had the experience of seeing so many of them that I could notice them pooping. Are you sure it's them and not something like gypsy moths?

[dudeshoes.livejournal.com]

Yep. The leaves end up like lace.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:-(

That's nature for you -_-

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could tease the sky fishers by giving the line a tug - just hope that the joke isn't on you...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the line is sticky… or what the hooks are made of….