Monday, August 27, 2007

Semi Season


I am just about on track for an early start tomorrow on another trip to the job site to fit more homegrown products. Distracted by preparations and hammer throwing in the Athletics going on in Osaka. The season has just started to change here as we see a lot of these cicada remnants about. The larger black and green numbers (like the one in the drawing under these) are still flapping about, but there are plenty of ant ravaged examples of the other two and the central item shows what the little chaps look like while they are living underground having been shed when the final metamorphosis took place. The other insect change is with crickets calling very late into the evening as a voice of autumn and cooler weather. It used to be popular for boys to collect these little gems at this time of year, but I don't here of them doing it much now. It doesn't do any harm as long as the kids stick to collecting dead ones, but it can give you a bit of a start if you happen to pick one up that is just tired rather than dead, they are very loud when they chirrup in protest and their whole bodies shake with sound.