A walk
Posted: October 10, 2009 | Author: Robin | Filed under: Autumn, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Walking, wandering, weather | Tags: barn, clouds, fall foliage, wooly bears |14 Comments(This morning’s view of the pond. Photo © 2009 by Robin)
If you’re looking for today’s haunted post, go down one. I’m posting twice today because I took a walk, it’s beautiful here in the Bogs, and I want to share some of the walk with you.
(Looking up the road I live on.)
(The neighbor’s old barn.)
(A nearby field.)
Last year I posted about the wooly bear over at Bountiful Healing. You can find the post here if you’d like to read it and see what last year’s wooly bear looked like. The gist of it (in case you don’t want to read it) is that the wooly bear is known as a weather prognosticator, the size of the middle band being the indicator of whether we’ll have a mild or severely cold winter. The wider the band, the milder the winter.
I’ve seen two wooly bears in the past two days. This wooly bear thinks it will be a cold winter:
This wooly bear seems to disagree:
Last year’s wooly bear was about as accurate as most weather forecasters. That is, sometimes right, sometimes wrong. We had some mild spots and we had some really cold spots, and it seemed like a typical Bogs winter to me.
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I love this wooly bear folklore! What a cool caterpillar. 🙂
You live on a very straight road. Maybe the Romans DID find America??
LOL, English Nutter! Maybe they did. Most of the roads around here wind around a bit, more like cow paths. But the straight ones do tend to be very long and very straight.
It’s probably the lack of hills.
I believe in the wooly bear. You seem to be ahead of us as far as Autumn goes. I’m missing peak season at my folks in western PA. Ors will happen at the end of the month, even though we’re not many miles apart. D
Alittlediddy: We’re probably further north. Canada sends their cold weather here, shoots it straight across Lake Erie. lol!
If that is a bear, I don’t want to meet one of your caterpillars! Scary
LOL, UHDD! The wooly bear is one of the better looking (and friendlier-looking) caterpillars around here.
Beautiful photos! I really like the skies, and I especially like the barn and road photos. I haven’t seen a wooly bear up close yet. I had seen a few crossing the busy road. I’ll keep an eye out for one to look at how wide the band is. 🙂
Thank you, Anna. 🙂
Take a photo if you find one. It’ll be interesting to compare wooly bears.
Wooly bears are everywhere!
http://centria.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/snow-and-it-isnt-even-october-15th-yet/
Yes, UHDD, they are. Almost frightening, isn’t it? 😉
I love those woolies. Did you pick them up? I would’ve wanted to.
No, I didn’t pick them up. I’m afraid my klutzy hands might hurt ’em.
The barn picture is especially picturesque. LOve it!
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