Comments on: Period piece http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2152 Dave Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:25:34 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2152 Whoa. What are you doing 'way back here in my archives? It's the wrong time of day for insomnia! Whoa. What are you doing ‘way back here in my archives? It’s the wrong time of day for insomnia!

]]> By: marly http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2151 marly Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:57:13 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2151 What smart suits and helmets! What smart suits and helmets!

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2150 Dave Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:49:42 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2150 I have three new photos of monarchs up at my Flickr site: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/89056025@N00/259176547/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/89056025@N00/259176544" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/89056025@N00/259176540" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I have three new photos of monarchs up at my Flickr site: here, here and here.

]]> By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2149 Bill Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:07:58 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2149 Wow. They are grand and uplifting. Takes me out of my own concerns to seem them chancing inexorably accross four lanes of highway. Then I think of the next interstate 100 miles to the south and the vast extent of their pressing risk. Last week they were working into a headwind. Perhaps on such days they choose to fly low and thread through the thickets of forest, which they do so easily, like smoke. Wow. They are grand and uplifting. Takes me out of my own concerns to seem them chancing inexorably accross four lanes of highway. Then I think of the next interstate 100 miles to the south and the vast extent of their pressing risk. Last week they were working into a headwind. Perhaps on such days they choose to fly low and thread through the thickets of forest, which they do so easily, like smoke.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2148 Dave Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:44:05 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2148 It's a mind-boggling phenomenon, no doubt about it. I'd love to see the monarchs at their wintering grounds in Mexico sometime. We've gotten a small taste of what that might be like here, on a few occasions: on late afternoons, cool temperatures can trigger hundreds of monarchs to clump together on tree branches for the night. It’s a mind-boggling phenomenon, no doubt about it. I’d love to see the monarchs at their wintering grounds in Mexico sometime. We’ve gotten a small taste of what that might be like here, on a few occasions: on late afternoons, cool temperatures can trigger hundreds of monarchs to clump together on tree branches for the night.

]]> By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2147 Bill Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:38:33 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2147 I don't know how they have the fuel for all that flapping. They seem spread evenly though the landscape, flapping through the forest, above the forest and across fields at various heights. I'm smashing and buffeting them as I go to town and they come traipsing singly and in twos and threes. They are refueling at flowers I can't name, hanging and resting momentarily. As soon as one is gone another appears. I don’t know how they have the fuel for all that flapping. They seem spread evenly though the landscape, flapping through the forest, above the forest and across fields at various heights. I’m smashing and buffeting them as I go to town and they come traipsing singly and in twos and threes. They are refueling at flowers I can’t name, hanging and resting momentarily. As soon as one is gone another appears.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2146 Dave Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:07:38 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2146 Lorianne - Yup. It's Last Call at the <a href="http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/19/love-and-death-at-the-milkweed-saloon/" rel="nofollow">Milkweed Saloon</a>, and the milkweed bugs are crowding in for one more drink. Bill - We're seeing a ton of migratory monarchs here, too. Of course, in PA they tend to follow the ridges, and our field is a sea of goldenrod, so even on off years, we still see a few. Lorianne – Yup. It’s Last Call at the Milkweed Saloon, and the milkweed bugs are crowding in for one more drink.

Bill – We’re seeing a ton of migratory monarchs here, too. Of course, in PA they tend to follow the ridges, and our field is a sea of goldenrod, so even on off years, we still see a few.

]]> By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2145 Bill Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:56:39 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2145 Your milkweed patch is really working. I've never noticed so many migrating Monarchs as I have this last week. Your milkweed patch is really working. I’ve never noticed so many migrating Monarchs as I have this last week.

]]> By: Lorianne http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/period-piece/#comment-2144 Lorianne Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:54:36 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/02/period-piece/#comment-2144 What a delightfully creepy picture. Is that a milkweed pod shot from above? What a delightfully creepy picture. Is that a milkweed pod shot from above?

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