'Out of the Swing of the Sea'. Colletes moricei, Morice's Plasterer Bee, on Tenerife Stinkweed, Schizogyne sericea, Barranco Hocico del Perro, La Caleta, Tenerife, Spain
It could, I guess, be called a counterfactual. I can't really imagine that I would like to be 'out of the swing of the sea', as a favorite poet of mine sings. In fact, one of the things I aesthetically don't appreciate about the Apocalypse is the statement that there will in Future Paradise no longer be a sea. Anyway... I don't want now to argue with the theologians, ;-).
Here I was high up in the Hound's Snout Barrico with my back to the Sublime Sea (see inset).
Scrounging around in all its dryness I saw on a flowering shrub of Tenerife Stinkweed this moveable Plasterer Bee which I took for 'dimidiatus'. But I stand corrected by insightful Bernhard Jacobi: 'moricei' (see his comment below). The specific stands for the fine English classical scholar Francis David Morice (1849-1926). He was an astute scholar of both Latin and Greek - among many works e.g. by Pindar and Thucydides, he rhythmically translated into English Vergil's Fourth Georgics on The Bee - but his great avocation was entomology. He traveled widely in the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and the Middle East in his quest for insects.
And aren't our Bee's eyes to die for!
'Out of the Swing of the Sea'. Colletes moricei, Morice's Plasterer Bee, on Tenerife Stinkweed, Schizogyne sericea, Barranco Hocico del Perro, La Caleta, Tenerife, Spain
It could, I guess, be called a counterfactual. I can't really imagine that I would like to be 'out of the swing of the sea', as a favorite poet of mine sings. In fact, one of the things I aesthetically don't appreciate about the Apocalypse is the statement that there will in Future Paradise no longer be a sea. Anyway... I don't want now to argue with the theologians, ;-).
Here I was high up in the Hound's Snout Barrico with my back to the Sublime Sea (see inset).
Scrounging around in all its dryness I saw on a flowering shrub of Tenerife Stinkweed this moveable Plasterer Bee which I took for 'dimidiatus'. But I stand corrected by insightful Bernhard Jacobi: 'moricei' (see his comment below). The specific stands for the fine English classical scholar Francis David Morice (1849-1926). He was an astute scholar of both Latin and Greek - among many works e.g. by Pindar and Thucydides, he rhythmically translated into English Vergil's Fourth Georgics on The Bee - but his great avocation was entomology. He traveled widely in the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and the Middle East in his quest for insects.
And aren't our Bee's eyes to die for!