I never saw the frogs. They always shut up when we got close, plus the frogs lived where the snakes lived, and one cottonmouth nearly sliding over my foot was more than enough in my lifetime.
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Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2004 12:42:17 pm PDT #5434 of 10001
brillig
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2004 12:45:56 pm PDT #5435 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are lightning bugs in Jamaica? I didn't think they existed in anyplace remotely tropical. My husband's never seen them (he's lived long stretches in California and Hawaii) and doesn't quite believe they exist
I don't think of California as remotely tropical, at least not the southern end. Where was he?
But yeah, we've got loads -- certainly more than I ever saw in Michigan, where there were some. I've associated them with warm humidity, myself.
sumi - Jun 23, 2004 12:46:24 pm PDT #5436 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Peepers are teeny tiny frogs therefore difficult to see.
Other frogs where my grandmother live: leopard frogs and bullfrogs.
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2004 12:49:20 pm PDT #5437 of 10001
brillig
Your tropical may vary. Anything with a humidity over 40% looks tropical to me these days. He was all over Cali: Big Sur, LA, some inland.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2004 12:58:40 pm PDT #5438 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anything with a humidity over 40% looks tropical to me these days.
The Jamaican side of me is agape at this. For tropical I require an actual rainy season, and non water-conservative natural flora. Certainly nothing officially described as semiarid, as LA is.
deborah grabien - Jun 23, 2004 1:09:09 pm PDT #5439 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
We don't get fireflies out here, no. It's damned near the only thing I miss, other than Peanut Butter Tandy Cakes.
(deep breath)
SQUEEEEEEEEE!
We're cleaning out the office, I mean, as in, complete cleanout, including all the stored cartons.
Know what we just found?
Two cartons - FORTY EIGHT COPIES - of the original hardback of "Plainsong", still in the wrappers.
I am seriously considering selling them on ebay, seven bucks a copy, ten bucks autographed, plus shipping.
Opinions?
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2004 1:12:17 pm PDT #5440 of 10001
brillig
After 7 years in a drought, one's weather perceptions get wonky. During storms, people actually come outside and look up and go "Wow, rain."
sumi - Jun 23, 2004 1:13:43 pm PDT #5441 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
deb -- I think that sounds like a good idea.
deborah grabien - Jun 23, 2004 1:19:29 pm PDT #5442 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
After 7 years in a drought, one's weather perceptions get wonky.
Oh yes. I remember mid-seventies in SF, extreme drought, water rationing, the whole nine yards. We got a summer shower - rare even in wet years, since we have a specific rainy season and that isn't summer - and everyone on the bus?
Applauded.
dcp - Jun 23, 2004 1:59:49 pm PDT #5443 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I call them lightning bugs and fireflies. I don't know why--both names seem to be common in this area.
"Lightning bug" is used in both Pennsylvania and Connecticut? Huh. I always thought there was a North/South split, but I guess not.
Here in western Arkansas they are "LAHT-nin bugs," and the one time I called them "fireflies" everyone turned and gave me a long hard look. Then my cousin said, "Oh, right, your Mama was a Yankee, wasn't she?"