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What monster is it that is tearing the wings off luna moths, hereabouts?

Anyway, this morning I set out to do some guardrail balancing--I figured 7:30 on a Sunday morning would mean no one was about, but maybe it's because it's the Fourth of July weekend, but there were too many cars. I only did a little balancing.

I kept walking, though, and found this luna wing.

another luna wing

I'm wearing a shirt with a pocket, so I put it in my pocket--and it turned out to be a passport to the land of black raspberries. So many, and I hadn't come with anything to put them in--so I folded a grape leaf in half and stitched it with some grass, and voila, a carrying pouch.

grape leaf pouch

Mmmm, berries.

black raspberries


Date: 2014-07-06 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
Oh, that green, green land where you can ramble and it's always a little different!

Date: 2014-07-06 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Always a little different, though I'm struck, especially this year, by how, year after year, I post similar things . . . I worry I get boring, but I figure, it's the cycle of the seasons, and if I enjoy it anew each year, maybe other people do, too.

Date: 2014-07-06 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com
Ditto this!

Date: 2014-07-07 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
We were evolved for this cycle, and we are great amnesiacs and non-noticers.

Date: 2014-07-07 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
You are so right about being amnesiacs--each year there's so much I forget, so each time I see whatever-it-is, it's absolutely entrancing.

Date: 2014-07-07 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
And you are a superb noticer and rememberer.

But then, with very perfect and vivid memories we'd apparently constantly be halted by being transfixed.

Date: 2014-07-07 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
A wonder-induced Zeno's paradox.

Date: 2014-07-06 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com
Those berries are beautiful! Do you have chiggers in your blackberry bushes there? When I lived in Nashville, I loved to pick blackberries, but there were always chiggers, so we paid for it later. :)

Date: 2014-07-06 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Around here the blackberries won't ripen until August--these are black raspberries (what some people call black caps). There are also red raspberries ripening. But we don't (touch wood) seem to be plagued with chiggers either for the raspberries or the blackberries--lucky! My friend from Kansas was just here, and she was talking about chiggers too. They sound awful.

Date: 2014-07-06 05:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sovay
I kept walking, though, and found this luna wing.

That's incredibly beautiful, but the idea of it being a controlled pattern is disturbing. I wonder what it's supposed to do.

Mmmm, berries.

Lovely summer cornucopia!

Date: 2014-07-06 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yes! I have them growing in my yard, but I like *finding* them.

I found the last luna wing around the same place. I wonder if they fly into the lights over the supermarket parking lot and get electrocuted….

Date: 2014-07-06 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wuweibaby.livejournal.com
mmm...berries

Date: 2014-07-06 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
wish I could share them through the internet in more than just image...

Date: 2014-07-07 10:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wuweibaby.livejournal.com
Me too. More than you know.

Date: 2014-07-06 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com
So lovely. I grew up in countryside like this. I never saw a luna, though I did once find a newly-dead cecropia (http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/HyalophoraCecropiaFem1.jpg), laid out like Cleopatra on a telephone pole.

Nine

Date: 2014-07-06 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
That is one beautiful moth.

Date: 2014-07-06 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oiktirmos.livejournal.com
Anyway, this morning I set out to do some guardrail balancing--I figured 7:30 on a Sunday morning would mean no one was about
A ridiculously creative person.
Also, a neat introduction to a short story.

so I folded a grape leaf in half and stitched it with some grass, and voila, a carrying pouch.
Creative.

Date: 2014-07-06 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Tomorrow is a weekday, but if I get up very early, I might catch the road (and guardrail) when no one's around.

Date: 2014-07-07 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
I was wondering-- is this skateboard balancing? It is pleasant to envision you as a sort of skateboarding fairy.

Date: 2014-07-07 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
No, just balancing on foot (I am *nowhere near* that good at skateboarding)--and I got to do it! This morning :-)

Date: 2014-07-06 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khiemtran.livejournal.com
I like how the shape of the moth wing mirrors the folded grape leaf. Perhaps all their visitors bring home souvenirs wrapped like that?

Date: 2014-07-06 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
I think definitely.

With one wing, I can fly you halfway there

Date: 2014-07-06 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com
The blackberries aren't yet ripe here, but I've introduced my in-laws to the deliciousness of mulberries. They've lived with mulberry trees around them all their lives and never knew the berries were edible.

And your pouch idea? Pure genius!

Re: With one wing, I can fly you halfway there

Date: 2014-07-07 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
What a huge good thing you did for your in-laws! Imagine not knowing about the deliciousness of mulberries--they've been missing out so long!

Date: 2014-07-07 12:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littlemoremasks.livejournal.com
Last night the boss found a lunar moth on her evening walk. She put it in the freezer (I think she's going to mount it) but it's always so amazing to see such a big beautiful thing.

Date: 2014-07-07 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Yeah, they are so *big* as well as beautiful.

Date: 2014-07-07 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
Butterfly and moth bodies are not uncommonly eaten by cats, who engage in hunting ballet to catch them.

Date: 2014-07-07 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Cats do do some pretty amazing ballet when they're chasing moths and flies and things--yes, it could be that.

Date: 2014-07-11 05:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com
I have reread thiss post several times. It's so beautiful and full of wonder.

Date: 2014-07-15 07:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
((glad))

How are you doing these days? I have silently followed your recent posts. It sounds very, very tough :-(

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