But I've decided that Gather is way too funky and cranky in its system for me to waste half days and days here--
and the other good news is that I've recruited two people who can identify the bugs... So Psycho Bug really has a name-- he's a Jersey Tiger. And my admirals are actually maps--so I have to change that; but some of my whites are green-veined whites and when it gets into fritillaries, then I've a silver-washed, a Queen of Spain, a possible Titania and something else--
And moreover I bumped into some very interesting things. Only someone so dogmatic as the ex-director of Dogma and Catholic faith can argue that God is perfect and created a perfect world. However, if you go out in the woods you might meet up with some very interesting creatues that rather counters this point. Have you ever seen a legless lizard?
No, it's not like buying the orange Skoda without the tires. It really has no legs and doesn't quite move like a snake. It moves like a snake with a serious case of constipation. And then there's that furry thing that was buzzing about the giant thistle. Okay the thistles here routinely grow to over six feet tall, but when you get something bigger than your thumb buzzing by your face constantly and humming about the down, you begin to wonder if you're hallucinating. So I sent off a hurried jot to my two new specialists asking, " have you ever seen a hummingbird about the size of your thumb with a red bum? But have you ever seen a hummingbird with antennae? "
Now the answer to that is a stout, "of course not. That's utter nonsense." So what can it be? harmless, noiseless and flies like a hummingbird? Well, hate to tell you, but God obviously made mistakes or it wouldn've taken him six days to create the world and then have to take a break. If God's so omnipotent, why the rest break? Okay, let's not get into theology or we'll have the fundamentalists and literalists screaming at us...
But can you believe that there's something called a hummingbird moth? Sounds like one of those biogenetics engineering jokes, "What do you get when you cross breed a hummingbird egg with a caterpillar?" Hemeris Thysbe
red rump and all.
So it was an exciting day in the Srbsko Thistle Patch with legless lizards and hummingbird moths, but sorry the latter was not conducive to photographs, but I got a nice blur and several empty spaces.
and so is all for now--
I believe a small southern white
too much acid makes the spider psychedelic green
brown meadow ringlet-- until I am corrected
the open wings
blue-- but which?
Map Butterfly
wings of the Map
buzzy thing that stings if you aggravate it
battered silver washed fritillary
psycho bug who is really a Jersey Tiger
the answer to the Detroit Lions, no doubt.
a different blue, but who?
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life gives hard choices-- but am very tired. the paperwork is really tedious for this, but I tried to use google spreadsheets and that was worse. if anyone has freeware suggestions for tracking phootography, I'm all ears.
thanks fopr comments-- will have to borrow the money to open the gallery. don't even have food money at moment and distrust the situation I am in. not good.
and also from other professiona photographers that I should start hanging the pics up for sale-- the problem is that i have no cash for a gallery and no way of receiving the cash into the Czech Republic... is part of EU, but doesnn't seem to have any international internet banking connections established for such small business. the problem is that I am a foreigner in Cz-- not native and this makes a ghuge difference in laws and accounts, etc
the butterfly site is no longer with gsus, you need to find it here:
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
or go to the State Dept of Forestry, Fish and Game or whatever it happens to be in the state. Look for the species listing and then you'll find the flutterbies and birds in the region
frits only appear to look the same, but actually they can fool you. it takes a very skilled eye and a handbook to tell fritillaries apart, as well as the blues. Sometimes it's a matter of counting the dots or the missing bars, or checks on the underwings, or white spts on the underwings rather than orange-- or a marbled underwing.
and I just started and because I know nothing, I have to sk some people to identify them for me. Sometimes butterflies change color through the season and this is very confusing, too.
So am just learning to look for them and take pictures of them. It takes patience and patience and patience and much effort and practice, but it is addictive. And when you start to recognize that you've found different species, then you get excited because instead of yellow dots, you've a blue with orange antenna and a red ring on on the wing-- or a marbled underwing instead of white dots.
and when the picture comes out-- you ar just plain relieved.