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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
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)
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
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love this little inch worms
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Yeah, if I'm going to eat worms, I'd prefer them to be gummy worms.
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I loved your thoughts on dye. I think we should have a new shade of purple: Slow Mauve. :)
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+1.
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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!
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http://firehouse12records.com/track/adagio-slow-mauve-scribblings
...but don't play the track; it's utter pants.
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THAT IS A GREAT LINE.
run--run WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
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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!
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I love that image.
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(I keep up with you both through your crossposts to LJ and through FB)
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*chomp*
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It looks eager, yet a tear dropped from its eye. I went closer, looked-- floating, a sliver of moon.
ghostly galleon
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That's nature for you -_-
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