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Taught myself to run from feelings
Cuz I don't trust nobody
I got what I need
Turns out you found the part of me was missing
And goddamn you make the ground feel like the ceiling
We go together like rockets and space
Like Frankie and Grace
Cool kids and cocaine
The way you carry yourself
You do it so well
But I can still tell
Is that you're a weirdo
But I wouldn't have it any other way
You're no superhero
Still you're the one that's always savin me
Only one in 7 billion makes me feel it
Can't you see
That only a weirdo ... a weirdo
Could love someone like me
This enormous fly will be my species No. 497 on iNaturalist.
I was kneeling in front of my flower bed, trying to get a clear capture of a mini Bee on one of the newly opened Alstroemeria blooms, when this weird insect landed on the Parsley flower head behind it.
Scientific name: Tachina grossa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common name: Giant Tachinid Fly aka Yellow-faced Fly
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Wingspan : 15 to 19 mm.
Biotope: Open and damp woodlands, damp meadows, heathlands.
Geographic area: Western Europe.
Observation period : Late June to early September.
The Giant Tachinid Fly is the largest member of the Tachinidae family in France and maybe in western Europe.
You can easily tell it apart with its body size, its black thorax and abdomen and its yellow head contrasting with the two large rounded eyes.
The abdominal hairs are strong and raised at right angle.
The hairs on the thorax are not raised. There are yellow hairs at the back of the head.
It parasites butterflies' caterpillars, especially those of the Lasiocampidae family.
You can often observe the Giant Tachinid Fly on flowers in summer. /
There is one brood per year (maybe two in the southern part of its range). /
J'étais en train d'essayer de prendre une photo nette d'une mini Abeille sur une fleur d'Alstroemère tout juste éclose, lorsque cette énorme mouche s'est posée sur une tête de fleurs de Persil juste derrière !
Tachina grossa, l'Echinomyie grosse ou Tachinaire corpulente est une espèce d'insectes diptères brachycères de la famille des Tachinidae. C'est la plus grosse mouche d'Europe. Sa larve parasite des chenilles de papillons. Wikipédia
I know I'm fucking moody
And I know I'm quite unkind
I know I'm kinda of distant
But you're always on my mind
"I'm not waiting for a hero. I saved myself long ago. I don't need someone to complete me. I am whole alone. I just want a weirdo to go on adventures with. Someone who will dance with me, kiss me when I least expect it, and make me laugh."
~ Brooke Hampton
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watchtower :
Its main purpose is to provide a high, safe place from which a sentinel or guard may observe the surrounding area. In some cases, non-military towers, such as religious towers, may also be used as watchtowers.
I meet many people out on my walks and enjoy chatting to friendlier and more interesting examples of the same species. I'm sure many are left feeling I was a bit weird, but the facts remain the same that if they hadn't had their life interrupted by me they might have walked miles and talked to no one. But today I came across one character determinedly striding up the side of a 100 ft tall pine tree. We had just had a heavy squall, which is why I had headed for the relative shelter of the woods, and I and Darcy were not just wet but cold. The weather forecast had suggested it would even out at about 8 degrees C today, so in the early morning, and on the back of a nasty squall I suspected it was a couple of degrees lower than that. It certainly felt it. So on November 15th, where was Miss Cricket going, and why straight up a tall tree?
(I wish now I had got a better picture of her, but the conditions just weren't very good at the time)
Peeking through the grass and moss trying to find its way onto the light, trying to not be spotted by coming-bys. Only head can be seen above the shrubs, barely moving. Is it the mushroom or me trying to take a picture?
He is pretty strange looking, this is a really funny looking pose to me, it doesn't show how cute they really are.
Still, that was only one of two shots yesterday that I was able to take that was worth anything.
Really, I don't care for this shot, it's only a filler. :)
Yesterday I went back to where I used to live, in Irving, Texas, (I live 2 hours Northeast of there now) and was all ready for some real fun at my old haunts. As it turns out the City has pretty much destroyed that place, I barely recognized it. They are placing large zero lot line houses along BOTH sides of the creek.
The place is Centennial Park...
That was pretty sad for me, I have 8 years of using that place, all of the construction and the hustle and bustle of that area now scares off the wildlife. The wildlife there was literally amazing, and I rarely use that word to describe things, but it was.
I ended up going to Village Creek Drying Beds (VCDB) in Arlington after that, (15 minutes West) that too was a major disappointment, I don't know what is going on there, but there wasn't much to be seen. Again, pretty sad. (Possibly all of the rain that was received recently)
So, I guess I will forget those places and not drive the 2 hours + to get there, which was not fun anyway. :)
Bufflehead
Scientific name: Bucephala albeola
today is wonderful weirdos day and of course we had to have a class picture at walducks university :)...... and one wannabe ducky weirdo, in the person of a blue cheep....
just realized: "odd ducks"
let's hear it for going from the sublime to the ridiculous!!
(see next photo in the stream)
55/365 aDaD "a duck a day"
here's the link, doug, www.checkiday.com/