Rainforest Thread #78 -- Is April cruel?

They all go crunch and pop when you step on them by mistake.

Thank you for sharing, sue.

eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww

Also, while short lived, they are thickest on the highways when traveling at 70 mph........ Oh, what a mess.........

Reminds me of an old saying - "Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield."

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and on Saturday

I grew up as a child in West Tx - on the Texas and Pacific RR line. Most of my friends were Mexican children my age. So - - - the way they rave about things =
"Whoy, whoy, whoy !!" In tiny shrill voices.....

Ah, the good old days.

Happy 5th of May to everyone.......

Although, we actually all get to do this over on the other 5th

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It' the 4th today (just editing) and I have creaked.

Thanks, Stradee.
Our May bugs ( Melolontha melolontha) belong to the family Scarabaeidae.

When I was little we children had to go out and collect them. We were paid some money for each full shoe box. Then the bugs were either drowned or burned.


Happy weekend to all and Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

poor bugs

They are kinda horrible though specially when they thump land on a picnic table. At first glance of the critter i thought"Dang! What do they look like in August"!??? scary


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Happy May Day and Cinco de Mayo, wildclickers!

Mexican tunes from the stores music system today. Very cool.

Oh yeah, I love the Spanish music of Segovia and his student, Diaz.

Really good stuff.

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This is just striking my mood right now ...

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bob Dole, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Billy Joel

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Good one. Chilling.

Thanks for that reminder of my youth, ehBeth and Billy Joel.

That was so cool! All clicked!

Yeah, Merry Andrew, The scary part - that's all in my lifetime......

Wow, ehBeth!

ehBeth,
120 keywords - wow!

Bits of that song were running through my head last night ... I decided I needed to go look up the full set of lyrics. Wow, indeed. I recall the video being quite striking at the time (probably on youtube now).

I sometimes forget how powerful a songwriter Billy Joel can be.

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It feels like we're zooming toward 63 acres.

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The first hatchling has been spotted here. We've been following this peregrine falcon nest on another thread - now that the first hatchling is out ... I want everyone to take a peek (5 eggs - this could get very fluffy over the next couple of weeks)

Thanks- where is it? Lot of noise- traffic, I guess.
And the bird is talking, too
Proud of 2 hatchlings. At least I think I saw two.



This I watch A Bald Eagle nest at Norfolk Botanical Garden.

Oh- feeding time.