Comments on: Snow Flea

By: Seabrooke

Seabrooke — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:05:59 +0000

Great piece on snow fleas, Dave, informative while enjoyable to read. And thanks for the link. :)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:03:34 +0000

In reply to bug_girl. Thanks. Soil-as-stew is such an accurate metaphor, I fear it may be closer to straight description, actually. Fortunately I bethought me to use "goulash" instead, a word that sounds like chewing and slurping.

By: bug_girl

bug_girl — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:45:07 +0000

Very nice! :)
Love the goulash metaphor.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:35:49 +0000

In reply to Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Cool. If/when you feel confident enough about images to post them to your blog, I will of course link to them.

By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:46:25 +0000

Sounds good to me! I’m going to be sending you some preparatory sketches of the Snow Flea image soon. Sketches first, lino-prints later. That’s the process for me.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:42:29 +0000

Snow fleas are pretty amazing, no doubt. I guess to me “bestiary” implies creatures that are out-of-the-ordinary in some way, so I think that’ll be the focus of the series.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:52:23 +0000

You’re certainly not wasting time getting going on this project! I’m excited to see who and what you pick.

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:23:21 +0000

Nice start to the bestiary.

I love the image of snow fleas as unquiet seeds. Now, I’m off to follow links and learn more about snow fleas.

By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:06:44 +0000

In reply to Dave.

OK, I challenge you to ease ‘spermataphore’ into another bestiary poem, if only because it’s too good to waste!

Thanks for the links. That’s my morning sorted out.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:06:34 +0000

Still an amazing creature. I saw my first one way back in 1989 when I climbed Mt. Greylock in Western Massachusetts. I still can’t believe that a tiny invetebrate evolved to live on snow… it’s like some remnant from Teutonic times.