asakiyume: (shaft of light)
asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2014-07-06 09:40 am

Another luna wing

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


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

[identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com 2014-07-06 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)
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[personal profile] sovay 2014-07-06 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2014-07-06 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] oiktirmos.livejournal.com 2014-07-06 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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

With one wing, I can fly you halfway there

[identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com 2014-07-06 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] littlemoremasks.livejournal.com 2014-07-07 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
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.

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

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