Tag Archives: insects
Purty
I was walking around my yard the other day like a big coarse human, admiring the Beautiful Splashy Things which I had, through intent or dumb luck, played a role in creating. Like this: Chicken! Purty. And this: Flowers! Purty. After a few minutes of this sort of thing, I meandered absent-mindedly over to my small homemade pond to pull a […]
Ephemeral
Humans look at death after 20, 30, or even 40 years as tragic. In truth, we lack perspective, and, more pointedly, presence; we fail to fully occupy moment after moment, millions upon end. We mistake the distractedness that makes time fly for a lack of time itself. But time is right here, always; it is we who are gone.
Soundscape
Snowy tree cricket (Oecanthus fultoni)* My basement August 19, 2016 *Thanks to entomologist extraordinaire Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, for the identification and this interesting tidbit: O. fultoni has been used as an indicator of temperature, employing a formula based on the number of chirps per minute. This little guy is now safely outside, where his chances of […]
Meditatio Ephemera 