{"id":4288,"date":"2015-03-21T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T02:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2015-03-21T19:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T03:03:34","slug":"spring-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"Spring is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/yellowjacket1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" alt=\"[IMAGE] yellow jacket under cup\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/TrioforClAdagio.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/TrioforClpg1s.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>A romantic theme for any lovers.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, Spring is finally here, and love is in the air.<br \/>\nAnd, on my window.<br \/>\nAnd, as in the pic above, under glass, until the trusty crew at Shapiro Insect Relocation Services, Inc. releases the hapless wanderer to the correct side of the viewing area.<br \/>\nWhich, in the case of yellowjackets, is whatever side I am not on.<\/p>\n<p>While taking the gazillionth photo out my window of yet another gorgeous day&#8217;s vision of sparkling seas and blue skies, I cursed at the big dark splotch of gunk on the left of my viewfinder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/view1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" alt=\"[IMAGE] view splotch\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stepping back a few inches, I was embarrassed to discover that I had been an unintentional voyeur into the sex life of whatever kind of fly genus these two lovers belong to.<br \/>\nI was a larva lookie-loo.<br \/>\nA pupa paparazzi.<br \/>\nAn imago imager of flies in flagrante.<\/p>\n<p>Far more fascinated than ashamed, I offered the couple an entomology apology (an entomapology?), and stepped closer again.<br \/>\nThis time I focused.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/clearer.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" alt=\"[IMAGE] insect love\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/closer1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" alt=\"[IMAGE] insect love\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kelpville readers know of my odd delight watching the creatures around me hunt and eat.<br \/>\nAdd another normal function to that list.<\/p>\n<p>Oh look: they&#8217;ve changed position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/new-position.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" alt=\"[IMAGE] insect love\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music A romantic theme for any lovers. 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