asakiyume: (bluebird)
asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2014-06-02 11:53 am

fishing in the sky ocean, fast and fugitive

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



[identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
*delights so, so much in this post*

love this little inch worms

[identity profile] seuzen.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :-)

[identity profile] dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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?)

[identity profile] ashlyme.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)
Edited 2014-06-02 18:17 (UTC)
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-06-02 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
fishing in the sky ocean, fast and fugitive

THAT IS A GREAT LINE.

[identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] pdlloyd.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
So much fun in this post. Thank you!

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that purple swooshie one!

[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com 2014-06-02 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone in the sky ocean is fishing.

I love that image.
snakypoet: Line drawing of dragon plus 5-pointed star (Default)

[personal profile] snakypoet 2014-06-03 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
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?)
Edited 2014-06-03 08:03 (UTC)

[identity profile] core-opsis.livejournal.com 2014-06-03 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I love those kinds of observations about words--thanks!

[identity profile] avalonestel.livejournal.com 2014-06-04 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my gosh, the inchworms are so cute! <3

[identity profile] inspirethoughts.livejournal.com 2014-06-04 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Fishing from sky..what a lovely concept. Although I always wondered how these worms climbed.

[identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com 2014-06-05 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] dudeshoes.livejournal.com 2014-06-05 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] khiemtran.livejournal.com 2014-06-08 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps you could tease the sky fishers by giving the line a tug - just hope that the joke isn't on you...