hey malign, how are you today?

Hey, milady. I'm okay today. Procrastinating, as usual.

I saw a ladybug (we say 'bug', you say 'bird') on the passenger-side window of my car, when I stopped at a traffic light this morning. I didn't see where she went after she blew off, though.

OH NO!!!! i hope she didn't get killed...

Yeah, why come ye say bug and we say bird? and how come we spell "colour" with a u and ye spell "color"? I've always wondered that...

Sweety, she can fly! :-)

I don't know why you guys insist on being different. :-P

Because it does all depend on 'u'!

Whenever I used to visit my cousins when we were small, we always went ladybird hunting and we collected them in jars and gave them some grass to climb on:)!!! sometimes my cousins operated on them though.....i didn't like that part...ladybird cruelty..

I hope you let them go eventually. ;-)

We collected lightning bugs (birds?), too. We thought if we got enough of them, they could be like a flashlight (torch). They never seemed to develop a rhythm, and all flash together, though.

what's a lightning bug?? I don't think we have them over here..!!

They only come out in summer. And you may not get them. They're a kind of beetle, maybe a centimeter long, that flies along slowly, flashing from a special organ at the tail end of them.

oh I love lightning bugs!!! But there's none that I know of here.

That is soooo cooll....do they give out electric shocks? haha:) Hey tour!!!!!!!!

No, it's a cold light; it comes from a special chemical reaction under their skin. You can hold them in your hand while they flash.

How high (elevation) are you, tour? I would've thought you might get them ...

Oh wow!!! I want one...

I have Googled for you:

Lightning bug

Mmmm, let's see... about 2000 feet?

that is so cool!!!! I wish i could light up like that!!!!!!

700 meters or so? Maybe it's just too cool for them, at your latitude. I know that there are species on all the continents ... Maybe Google can find us a distribution map.

Yep, no more nightlight in the loo ... :-)

Yep, Google is our friend: National Geographic article.

I've seen them before in the east, but not here... Ya maybe tooo high... 700 m is right... I was trying to be on the english program with my feet...

Heh. How big are your feet? :-)

I know you were trying to speak my language, I was just verifying, because it didn't sound that high. But if you're already at a high latitude, just a little altitude could make it a lot colder.

I knew you were going to joke about ma feet! my feet are normal, I think...I also was sure you were going to joke about the altitude... affecting ma brainzzzz

I like being predictable. People tell me I am, all the time.

Well, it must really affect the biking! I'm impressed.

Ah,yeah, apparently it makes you brake a shoulder too sometimes.

No, that's not the elevation. That's the impact. :-)

Like my dad is fond of saying, "It's not the fall that hurts you, it's the sudden stop."

yeah! but it may affected the brain!

yah the dirt seems much harder than the snow that's for sure... I learned that.

It pays to be choosy about location when you decide to plant your face. ;-)