...when I discovered this golden raintree at Lakeside in Ft. Wayne . The globe came along a bit later and after a chat about the state of affairs of globes ( you know , global warming , globe trotting , globular physics and some other mathematical globlidigook th
at i'd only understand asleep ) i asked if the globe would pose by the golden raintree blossoms and it said 'yes' . I was surprised to find this raintree as they are something you rarely see around here . In fact , this is only the second raintree i've ever seen in Ft. Wayne ... One was at a friends and it was sitting on the porch having a beer . It was nice that the raintree was there because it was sprinkling out and its branches kept us all dry and kept our wet drinks from getting watered down . The raintree there didn't have a globe with it and wasn't really all that talkative ... probably it was a sullen drunk . As a funny aside , i now have two raintree seedlings in my garden . Isn;t that funny ? Someday i will be able to sit out in the yard and drink a beer with them , and maybe we can invite a globe , too ....and then i entertained thoughts on a tribe of terrapin :
I think they were laying eggs ! This seemed very strange to me , but i suppose it's all part of life and that kind of stuff -- the noble turtle , some refer to her as a shell-back-creature-from-prehistoric-epochsesis-or-from-a-stran
gely-different-world , or just a hard-thing or in your case a ( insert your name for this odd animal-like-creature here or where ever convenient ) , seems pretty even tempered to the point of being non-existent ; in fact , turtle-thing may be from another planet : notice the shell ; my theory is that it's a self-sustaining life-supporting capsule , not unlike a flying saucer , that the turtle will travel between the stars in -- so ; obviously the turtle can live for unheard of ages ; many lifetimes of human-types or owl-types or even the especially long-lived forest newt-types ; Shakespeare may have mentioned them (turtle-space-aliens ) in a sonnet, as i believe King Richard had a few intergalactic-acid-revelations .
Enough of alien nature and supertronics : i have decided to put up some pics of big bugs ... this here big bug I actually snapped at Turkey Run in Indiana ... it is hard to take a picture of these big bugs as they flap their little wingy thingys very fast and move and flit and don't sit very still ... see how he is a wee bit blurry ... i believe these big bugs live in another dimension that somehow coincides along with our own , and only an astrophysicist could explain that notion .
These mega-huge bumbling bees love Snapdragons -- which have a vicious bite i warn you -- but i am beginning to loathe Snapdragons for they seed like wild things prowling the wild unexplored undergrowth's . I have taken to picking most of the seedlings , leaving only a select few to flourish in their hue and splendor(isnish) ... they are like a weed , or several .
After he frightened me , i sat down and had a conversation ; it went like this : "Why hello , you sort of surprised me there , Mr. Mantis .""Oh , snick snik , i am sorry , snik . I am looking for a bug to eat , but if you lay very still i could maybe eat some of you .""That is a bad idea , Mr. Mantis , for if you start to eat me then i will surely squarsh you , just as an involuntary action , you know .""Snik snik ... ok , if you see a bug let me know , for i am hungry . Snik . You can call me Bob ."That was all of that because i became distracted by another big bug ....
This big ugly bug should be against the law ... it is way ugly ; but by those standards i would probably be locked up forever myself . See how this cicada is looking at me with its big black eye and thinking , "Gawd , what an ugly big thing ! I sure wish i could lay my eggs in its wonderfully curly hair ! Then i could die happy !"
