Outside the wall
Aug. 22nd, 2004 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumWent to another Camp today. Took a walk around the outside. It was nice... Pleasantly grey, and green. The local oaks have huge caps on the acorns, and leaves the size of bread plates.
In a graveyard (tall standing stones, and thinnish buddhas) I saw the most amazing dragonfly (it make me think of you Kate... I took pictures). At first I thought is some cluster of flies, courting, but then I saw it was one single dragonfly. Copper-colored bodied, with dark wingtips. It was the wingtips, all four of them fluttering around the body.
So we headed out, to see the cataracts, a slow lazy spill of water (it must have been something when tropical storm meji was just finished) down the side of the mountain at the bottom of which Uijongbu sits.
The trail home had the light reversed, and that was when I saw them, the strangest spiders in my life (even counting the camel spiders, which were merely the scariest, and the small ones that looked like crumpled carbon paper, which I saw in Missouri). Green, and yellow and striped, with an enlongated body, reminiscent of a katydid in shape.
That wasn't the odd part, no, they were in colonies. I don't know how else to describe them. There were webs, and more webs, all touching. Spiders of various sizes (from half an inch of legspan, to almost four) were within inches of each other. It seemed that the webs were touching, like planes of interference in a large crystalline cluster.
I hope those pictures come out too.
In a graveyard (tall standing stones, and thinnish buddhas) I saw the most amazing dragonfly (it make me think of you Kate... I took pictures). At first I thought is some cluster of flies, courting, but then I saw it was one single dragonfly. Copper-colored bodied, with dark wingtips. It was the wingtips, all four of them fluttering around the body.
So we headed out, to see the cataracts, a slow lazy spill of water (it must have been something when tropical storm meji was just finished) down the side of the mountain at the bottom of which Uijongbu sits.
The trail home had the light reversed, and that was when I saw them, the strangest spiders in my life (even counting the camel spiders, which were merely the scariest, and the small ones that looked like crumpled carbon paper, which I saw in Missouri). Green, and yellow and striped, with an enlongated body, reminiscent of a katydid in shape.
That wasn't the odd part, no, they were in colonies. I don't know how else to describe them. There were webs, and more webs, all touching. Spiders of various sizes (from half an inch of legspan, to almost four) were within inches of each other. It seemed that the webs were touching, like planes of interference in a large crystalline cluster.
I hope those pictures come out too.
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Date: 2004-08-23 01:07 pm (UTC)At any rate - it's nice to meet you.
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Date: 2004-08-24 12:58 am (UTC)I don't mind, feel free to root around in the memories, and the calendar.
I looked at the rose you did, and I suspect the blue cast to the glass, in the pictures is because of the light-temperature when you took the picture.
I'll have to scan the various pictures, so all of you can look at them.
TK