Fri, 01 Aug 2008

Yuck
The photo is of my lemon balm, partially cut. That's not what I'm yuck-ing about. The lemon balm is lovely. I cut it down just as it was about to bloom in an attempt to keep it from spreading its seeds everywhere. It is a lovely plant to grow. When you rub the leaves, they give off a nice lemon scent. The yuck happened a couple of days ago. I was in my office on the phone speaking with Garden Maven Colleen. I looked out the window and saw a giant dead locust on my picnic table. YUCK! It was huge. I hear them in the trees as I am writing this. I don't remember ever experiencing one of the 14 year or 7 year outbreaks of locust. I do remember seeing a news item about an outbreak in Cincinnati a few years ago. It looked frightening. Locust everywhere, even in the downtown area. They were falling out of trees onto the heads of people passing by. Ohhhhh. Anyway, while I'm on the phone, I'm also wondering how I'm going to clean up the giant dead bug. I'm not kidding. This thing had to be 2-1/2-3 inches long. As I was telling Garden Maven Colleen about it, a little sparrow hopped onto the picnic table. Now, the sparrow was only twice as long as this giant bug including the bird's tail feathers. It started nipping at the locust, eating the legs. Then, it picked up the bug and flew away. I think quite a few sparrows could have many meals with that one locust. I am very grateful to the sparrow for taking care of my clean-up dilemna.


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