Sunday December 17, 2023 Pic of the Day.

This was taken October 22 of this year. Other than the Black Walnut trees, the trees still had most of their leaves. This was a beautiful day, and Andi was really enjoying watching the multitude of crickets jumping around - there were a huge number of them everywhere in the yard for around a week or two in October this year. I've never seen so many in my life before. With every step, I was probably walking on a dozen at least. It reminded me of the time in April of 2007 when I lived in an area of Central Ontario Canada surrounded by literally thousands of acres of forests, lakes and marshland, when it became very warm one morning, and there were so many thousands of small frogs in my yard that I could not walk through it. If I had tried to walk in the yard, I would have killed large numbers, and I could not do that. Just looking at the yard, it looked like it was moving there were so many leaping frogs. It was gone the next day, and I've never seen anything like it again - even the next spring in the same area. In that area one summer day, late in August I think, there were so many dragonflies that it was surreal. In any direction, the air was filled with them - I'll make a wild guess of maybe 10 per cubic meter in every direction including up, with nowhere visible without them. Went for a walk down the road, and they were everywhere.

Today's Quote: “The crickets usher in a softness that smooths the harsh edges of a day now passing. And if their song does not somehow lull us to a softer sleep, then we have become deaf to things that matter in the process of listening to all that does not.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Picture Taken: October 2023.