Ray's Thought for the Day - Return of the White-Faced Pig-Nosed Fly
Do you wish you could get your hair to stand up like this? Well, such and such is within the realm of possibility. All you need is some heavy grease, wax or lanolin. Then, once applied your limp noodle hair may look just like the hair on this handsome or beautiful fly.Sadly, this may be the last fly picture for the venue for awhile. Fall has fell. That spells few pictures of adult insects. Yet, maybe on warm days the flies shall swarm if I can provide the proper attractant. Like maybe the deer that is destroying the CB shrubbery could have a fatal accident out in the east pasture. That carcass should attract plenty of flies. But not the sugar loving White-Faced Pig-Nosed Fly. Alas!
Yet soon enough, our midget planet shall hustle along. Soon too, the CB portion of our midget planet shall tilt back toward the fickle yet relatively stationary Ogma Sunface. Then, about this time, then, the White-Faced Pig-Nosed Fly shall return again.
Meantime, my beautiful girlfriend, Olwen, the Moon Goddess has either gone to work, or run off with her old boyfriend, that asshole, Culwuch. Harrrrruuuuuuuuuuuu!
Ray! Stop that infernal howling.
I can not help myself, Rayetta. I am forlorn, forlorn. Alas!
Then go help Crumby with the recycling. You're in charge Ray. Crumby is backsliding on the recycling again.
Really!
Yes. Crumby spells,
Recycling is for suckers. Why should I save up this or that for snot-nosed Republican babies. Use it up and send it to the dump, I say. Those Republican babies get what they deserve, nada, but ashes and switches. Ha!So you see Ray, Crumby requires recycling supervision. Plus, since you have lost most of your flies for awhile, and one of your beautiful girlfriends maybe, supervising Crumby shall take your noggin off feeling blue.
All righty then.
posted by ray pistrum at Tuesday, November 06, 2007
4 Comments:
Speaking of Fall falling, I was reading the book “A Dazzle of Dragonflies”, by Mitchell and Lasswell, and it says that in Japan years ago autumn started with the appearance of the red dragonfly (Sympetrum species). Perhaps your Druid calendar should be based on natural events rather than ticks of the clock. What do you think?
The Plant List Requestor
The creator of the Druid Calendar, me, Ray, faced incredible intellectual obstacles once I decided we needed a calendar. My first reason for wanting a Druid Calendar was, the seasons do not correspond to the Julian. So I wanted to increase the hot part of the year at the expense of spring and fall to better reflect reality. Hence, both fall, Olwen, and spring, Hope, are short, while Beelzebubberriffic goes on forever.
Prior to the calendar notion, the venue featured plants blooming in various months of the year. Bloom time for many plants may be timed to an annual cycle that is rather inflexible. For example, the recent display of goldenrod and Maximilian sunflower. All the rain did not seem to have them blooming sooner, or blooming longer,than last year.
So to answer your question, yes, I am trying to do that, associate local biological phenomena with the annual cycle.
The appearance, this time of year, of the White-Faced Pig-Nosed Fly is another example of just that. Another name for that fly could be, Olwen's fly. Another name for Olwen is White Track. The white- faced fly follows the white track.
I like your calendar. While some universal categories make some sense (like time zones), others don’t. Obviously, Florida’s growing “season” is different than North Dakota’s growing “season”, so it seems correct to divide the year into locally meaningful categories.
I’ve read that in some places people put a season between winter and spring. Vernal, maybe? This is the time when it is warm enough for plants to grow but the tree's leaves have not yet shaded the ground. However, your four seasons seems to me to be about right for central Texas.
I look forward to any refinements you might make. I am in the habit of totally disregarding the usual winter, spring, etc. business since it is meaningless. Thanks to your calendar maybe next year I won’t miss Hope Remains.
The Plant List Requestor
Hope Remains is plenty short all right. Take off your coat one day, and next day is May Day/Beltane. Hope is gone for another year.
There are harbingers of Hope, to wake a person up, though, like the GCWs come back. They are generally fairly easy to find on the first day of Hope Remains, and on the last day, Beltane. Between those days they are easiest to find. The winter weeds green the ground as green as its going to get, most of the sedges flower and set seed, Corralorhiza wisteriana is blooming somewhere, maybe.
So, the calendar hopes to reflects, as best may be, the Wonder of the Goddess, despite the multiplicative asphault and aggravation.
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