omg!

[silverflight8]

It's pouring rain! The intersection down the road is underwater. The cars in downtown are swimming. I got out of work dry and was soaked to the skin as soon as I made it down the stairs. It's unbelievable. What is going on?? This isn't normal at all!

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This is ironic because on Saturday, A and I went to the park to photograph butterflies, and sweated like pigs. All we saw were two (2) Cabbage Whites (invasive species) and 2 (two) Summer Azures, which are azure by naked eye, and tattered grey by photograph. Better than the first time in May, when we saw only the Cabbage Whites...lots of birds though. A has a picture of me sitting in despair under the shade of a bush, but some of the photos were worth it.

Here's my favourite picture of Saturday:

Comments

Rhetorical questions, right?

[ed_rex]

I got out of work dry and was soaked to the skin as soon as I made it down the stairs. It's unbelievable. What is going on?? This isn't normal at all!

Normal? Well, sort of. New normal. Until the climate stops heating up and settles into a new equilibrium. But for my lifetime (and probably yours)? Instability is normal, I'm sorry to say.

(Sorry. Had to reply, just on the off-chance you weren't waxing rhetorical.)

Re: Rhetorical questions, right?

[silverflight8]

Yeah, it looks like we're feeling the effects already :(

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

That is a gorgeous photo!

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Somehow they're beautiful wilting, too.

[morbane.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, pretty!

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

I <3 flowers. SO MUCH.

[littlerhymes]

Great photo. It makes the flowers look so epic!

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Hee, you're right! They really are tall. :D

[gothrockrulz.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is wet. O.O

ZOMG, that is one awesome photograph. Great composition. The illusion of a flower towering above you is fantastic!

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Water should not come down from the sky so fast! :O

Wouldn't it be cool if flowers really were that tall? Kind of like trees, but prettier. Thanks!

[gothrockrulz.livejournal.com]

LOL, no, it should not!

Well, that's a great idea for a story. I can see it now . . . Forest of Flowers . . . or something like that.

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

I had a horrifying thought about pollinators also growing proportionally--omg can you imagine gigantic butterflies? They'd be like birds! (Kind of cool, all iridescent and everything.) But I don't think I could handle the bees.

[gothrockrulz.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't think science could handle the bees, either. I remember watching a program about insect exoskeletons. It detailed that large insects (as in as big as us, or a car, or a house) were just impossible, because that much mass covered by that much exoskeleton would make it hard for the insects to move. (And this is as about as science-nerd-ish as this kid will get. LOL.)

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Good point. The butterfly wings probably couldn't support them! I tried to look up size and cold-bloodedness, but apparently if it's warmer they can get smaller, which kind of confuses me, since wouldn't smaller size=greater surface area/volume ratio, thereby making it easier to lose heat?? We need a biologist :)

That said, exoskeletons are strong enough to make some pretty terrifyingly sized bugs, not gonna lie. *flees*

[gothrockrulz.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I dunno. We do need a biologist. :)

Oh, definitely. I know they have their uses in recycling refuse, but one species I would not mind going extinct would be cockroaches. *shudders*

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Cockroaches stop the logic centers of my brain. I see one and it's like panic goes off--ohgod get it away from me no no no! *shudders too*

[twilightthief.livejournal.com]

Awesome picture <3

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you! <3