Oh, No!

I guess I didn't take the news about the hurricane seriously...

Here's the supermarket shelf today-

Bucket List Addition

A "bugnado" -- a vortex formed from flying insects -- was captured in the photo below. The photographer saw the large collection of bugs in southwestern Iowa in the early evening hours of July 4. He shot video and got some camera shots of the whirling bugs over a corn field. Entomologists explain that the bugs are probably either mayflies or midges, insects that spend their early lives swimming around in ponds or pools of standing water. When they grow up, the emerge from the water, grow wings and take off. But at that point, their hours are limited and they need to find a mate quickly before they die.


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Tuesday

“Since she had thought about nothing, she did not realize how the time had slipped by.”
― Clarice Lispector



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Ferrule

I learned a new word today.
Do you like the brass ferrule on this shovel?

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Missing in Action

Rare Plant Eats Bird
The nursery of Somerset gardener Nigel Hewitt-Cooper may be turning into a little shop of horrors. Cooper was “absolutely staggered” to find that one of his carnivorous pitcher plants had eaten a blue tit, a type of small bird. The plants, from South East Asia, generally lure insects into a pool of liquid where they digest them, but they’ve only been known to eat frogs, lizards, and mice. The only other documented case of one eating a bird was in Germany several years ago.


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