tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post2165013762645820887..comments2024-03-29T10:02:55.374+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Reasons to Be Cheerful. 4Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-17423466418718341612012-11-04T11:07:25.725+00:002012-11-04T11:07:25.725+00:00Handsome indeed! Thanks Banished, and Susan - and ...Handsome indeed! Thanks Banished, and Susan - and glad you guys got through Sandy.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-14378808052238473042012-11-01T17:25:49.060+00:002012-11-01T17:25:49.060+00:00Its lovely to see one over there Nige. Really not ...Its lovely to see one over there Nige. Really not one I'd have expected to see when I was still over there. Must be that global warming. Sandy hit about 200 miles north of us and all the nastiness was on the northside. 'All' we got was 4 days continuous rain and winds 35 to 60 mph. No more power outages than normal. Though honestly you would be appalled at how unreliable power is over here compared to UK norms.<br /><br />Oh yes and over here we'd call that one a Katydid.<br /><br />Check out this one from my garden a couple of years ago.<br /><br />http://bugguide.net/node/view/325118 Banished To A Pompous Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141515769740567476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-42574079598278984022012-11-01T01:01:44.039+00:002012-11-01T01:01:44.039+00:00What a splendid picture.
Did you know that Emily D...What a splendid picture.<br />Did you know that Emily Dickinson did not give titles to her poems? Her early editors (who, to be fair had an enormous job to edit her scraps) assigned the titles. I think "My Cricket" seriously detracts from one of her finest poems, which is about "a minor nation", not one cricket alone.<br />In honor of Keat's birthday & the advancing season, how about "the cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, & seems to one, in drowsiness half lost, the grasshopper's among some grassy hills". Not sure that wording is quite right as I'm doing it from memory.<br />Susan from post-Sandy NYC -- TG we are lucky to have power where we live.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-51273272404073434652012-10-30T17:03:45.195+00:002012-10-30T17:03:45.195+00:00You'll be relieved to hear I had to look it up...You'll be relieved to hear I had to look it up Mahlerman - but yes the old conehead's doing very well, along with several other cricket species, working their way up from the south coast across much of the country, and very welcome they are. I don't remember ever coming across one when I was a boy. And the females have that long 'tail' thing - it's for laying eggs!Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-21224112120291158002012-10-30T16:34:07.052+00:002012-10-30T16:34:07.052+00:00I'm humbled (not something my wife imagines is...I'm humbled (not something my wife imagines is possible) by your knowledge of the natural world Nige. A short-winged Conehead? It's been doing well lately....how so, and how do you know? And that is a Mrs Conehead....er...how can we be sure? Beautiful poem.mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.com