AstroGypsies

It comes so quickly, a bit of heat, a lot of heat, no leaves, a few buds, then the forest is full, of leaves, and mosquitos! Ha!! How does that happen SO quickly! It does boggle the mind!

Everything moves so quickly! From the arrival of the Hummingbirds the first of May, then the Orioles, a wild visit from a bright blue Indigo Bunting! That was a first! I was sitting, waiting for the hummingbirds when a flash of blue flies across in front of you. I rubbed my eyes, thinking, what the F*** was that, did someone lose a blue canary? Is this some lost tropical bird, but no…meet the male Indigo Bunting!

“Indigo Buntings migrate at night, using the stars for guidance. Researchers demonstrated this process in the late 1960s by studying captive Indigo Buntings in a planetarium and then under the natural night sky. The birds possess an internal clock that enables them to continually adjust their angle of orientation to a star—even as that star moves through the night sky. Astronomer birds, apropos here;) Like all other blue birds, Indigo Buntings lack blue pigment. Their jewel-like color comes instead from microscopic structures in the feathers that refract and reflect blue light, much like the airborne particles that cause the sky to look blue.” How cool is that!

It’s seems late April early May is squirrel time! The red squuirrels are out, yelling, trash talking the Mewberries, the black squirrels have their own Mafia/Cartel…don’t mess with Mama…as Gamora has learned! Nobody messes with Mama! The Mewberries have decided instead of chasing her, she is their pet squirrel…yup…and she has big teeth, claws and thumbs…Then there is Braniel…the Brad Pitt/Daniel Craig cross gray squirrel. That tail, it could only be Hollywood hair and this guy, he’s smart…Just see…

I couldn’t resist this guy! Now, back to Gamora and her traumatizing encounter with Mama Mafia.

Gamora was like WTFudge? It is just standing there…eating, it doesn’t give a hoot that I am an apex predator…OK, well, it’s nearly as big as me..wait…is this the black-gray squirrel mother that has chased every other squirrel off her lot? “Do you feel lucky today Gamora?”…she was not. This lactating mother squirrel got fed up with being so rudely watched as she ate that she took a leap straight at poor Gamora, who freaked out and jumped down! Then she went back to eating!
It is interesting just how “Yeah, you think you can?”…works…Gamora has met her squirrel match;)
I was trying to back up to get Rocket into the picture as he was below the table when the attack squirrel launched;) I think I may name her “Trinity” you Matrix fans;)

Gamora insists she works for the Cat United Nations, also known as F.U.N, Feline United Nations…This was a negotiation that went bad according to her! In the future she will continue to work with the Reptile, Rodent and Amphibian population where she has had great success and leave the squirrels to the boss, Groot:)

You have to have fun right?! ha! Check out “Cats With Jobs” on Facebook if you need a chuckle:)

Seriously, these squirrels are something else!

So yeah, I’ve been sidetracked by squirrels today:) Maybe I am part cat;)

I did promise furry creatures…Ha! It hasn’t been all frolicking, or running from the bugs! Thankfully the black flies have slowed down, a few swarms of harmless gnats now and then and the evil, evil mosquitos! The swarms of dragonflies have finally arrived to take care of them so going down to the dock isn’t quite like running the gauntlet as it was! And those Spring skies, storms, then rainbows!

I have never seen mists like this before and the very odd airplane contails being blown about! We’re sticking with the Buddhist tradition, the swastika, often referred to as the “Yungdrung” or “Manji,” is a profound symbol of eternity, auspiciousness, and stability. Whew…much better and yes, weird ass clouds!

May is for mists, as the air warms and the water is still cool.

It such a magical experience to sit and listen to the quiet world go by. Barred Owls hooting to each other across the lake, geese honking as they fly by, nature in all her glory.

Ok, it’s become a novel. I’ll sign off for now and catch up next week on some more new bugs, those dragonflies are amazing and a couple more spectacular sunrises. There are furry donkeys and Dusty as well. Saludos amigos. The Traveling Mewberries have some new great news as well to share! (No, not a new kitten, but I keep trying!)