Tuesday, August 12, 2008
These are my favorite moths here. I took the picture of this one--I actually have many photos of them. It's the Tuliptree Silkmoth. It's as big as a bat. I wrote a story I'm shopping around that features them. Is it odd that I like moths so much?
So, I've been trying to get set up on Facebook and Twitter the past few days. I wanted a place where I can combine my blog friends and my lit friends. Facebook is sort of clunky. There are things that make it very difficult to manage and navigate. It pulled some people from my address book that shouldn't have been and there is no way to remove them. The links hang up on the site and you have to manually move them to the browser bar to get them to work.
I've been depriving myself of things that are bad for me. Money is tight so I can't deviate from my plan. But I have a feeling come the twentieth that I'm going to bake a chokkit cake and eat the entire thing. Or maybe a coconut refrigerator cake with berries in the filling. And lots of fruit. With ice cream.
Facebook is klugey, but I'm determined to learn how to use it. I'll see if we can connect. Been looking for an excuse to try out Twitter, which is all the rage. Guess I'll just start on in!
I was in Sedona the weekend before last and went hiking through a beautiful red-rock canyon along Oak Creek. All along the trail were dozens of huge yellow butterflies. They look like stained glass windows, large, yellow, with black lines and a few dots of blue on the tail. Lovely. They made me think of your story.
I was in Sedona last weekend and went hiking in a beautiful red rock canyon along Oak Creek. I saw dozens of those big yellow butterflies. They look like stained glass windows with yellow wings, black markings and a few dots of blue on their tales. They made me think of your story.
Lepidoptera really fascinate me the more I learn about them--beyond just the grade school metamorphosis thing. I started just taking photos of them.
You ran into a swarm of two-tailed swallowtails--the western version of the Eastern Tigerfly. They are more ornate than our version. You are right--when swarmed they do produce a stained-glass effect.