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07-31-2011, 11:19 PM | #1 |
I hear them call the tide
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Cicadas
loud tonight
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08-01-2011, 12:19 AM | #2 |
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I hate the damn things reminding me how hot it is.
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08-01-2011, 12:57 AM | #3 |
I hear them call the tide
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I hate them too, now. Maybe that's why I didn't hear the shit who stole my bike
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08-04-2011, 02:38 AM | #4 |
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Personally I love the sound of them. Reminds me of doing some of my growing up in middle TN, in the heavily wooded, rolling hills. Left my windows open at night, got a nice cross breeze through my room, fell asleep listening to the sound every night of every summer for 8 years.
And then I moved goddamn Ohio
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08-04-2011, 10:40 AM | #5 |
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We rarely hear them here. The other evening we did, though. I thought it was a siren in a nearby town at first.
I remember them from being really young in Missouri. I use to run around collecting the little shells off the trees. Then we moved to Ohio. |
08-04-2011, 11:00 AM | #6 |
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Ummmm...we have cicadas in Ohio, you know.
It's not all Cleveland. We have hills and farms and rivers and lakes and all kinds of stuff like they gots out there in Paradise. Even some TREES! My brother built a football game out of cicada shells. They (the bugs) loved our Chinese Elm. He set up the defense and the offense and coaching and probably some people in the stands. Nutjob. |
08-04-2011, 11:06 AM | #7 |
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this one won't be troubling anyone any further.....
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08-04-2011, 11:27 AM | #8 |
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cicadas are so bizarre. When I look at one, I feel like I'm looking at a creature transported by a time machine 300 million years into the future.
When we had the big brood of them a few years back, I was distressed to see them drilling into a young sapling I had just planted so they could lay their eggs. Then I was fascinated to see other eggs hatching and the tiny little worms dropping out of the tree and onto the roof of our car. You would never notice the larvae, except you could see the trails they left trough the dew on the roof of the car, and there at the end of each trail was a tiny little squirming larvae. |
08-04-2011, 12:30 PM | #9 |
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Oh that's what they are?
I thought they were like grasshoppers! Wow. They're weird. |
08-04-2011, 12:49 PM | #10 |
To shreds, you say?
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Cicada, Cicada
That trillin' bug Cicada, Cicada It'll fly around you, and buzz it Bet your bottom dollar You'll lose your appetite Cicada, Cicada
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08-04-2011, 12:52 PM | #11 |
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Locusts. Only not all biblical and stuff.
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08-04-2011, 12:58 PM | #12 |
To shreds, you say?
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And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound
Of the lo custs of high-heeled bugs Heeled bugs
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08-04-2011, 01:53 PM | #13 |
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More cicadas, from the 2004 17-year-cicada swarm. The smaller black ones with red eyes are periodic, while the big green ones are every year.
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08-04-2011, 02:19 PM | #14 |
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Oh, wait - that's you HM? The same HM as you are here?
Bloody good pics, mate. |
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