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

[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*