The Dragonflies'Lair~Thread XXXI

Talented poets and friends of The Dragonflies' Lair | October 5, 2006 | bentfeather/Poets of the Lair

[Soaring Feather]

My Dragon Fly and Me

If I could be a Dragon Fly
and wing my way through the sky
I would never be shy
just me and my Dragon Fly!

By moonlight we ride the wind
chase the comets tail for fun
by day we would hide from the sun
our fragile wings would come undone

On darkest nights we would use
fireflies as our guide
we would dip and we would glide
through the heavens open wide
and scatter diamonds in the night sky
my Dragon Fly and me...

And we would wing past our lovers
silent in the night...
to kiss their face in our flight
much to their surprise and delight
my Dragon Fly and me in sight...

Such a view do we share
away up here in the air
of breezes soft through our hair
my Dragon Fly and me a pair...

bentfeather©
2002

[Lady Jag]

Good morning!!

[Soaring Feather]

Lovely, picture!

Happy day, the sun is shinning, and I am off to do grocery shopping.

See ya later.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Only a minute....have a wonderful day.
Not a single flake of the "flurries overnight".

[Lady Jag]

Get me some groceries, too, would ya? A late night last night has me bushed today.

[Soaring Feather]

Okay, will do. I hate grocery shopping, but it has to be done.

You rest up today, I am doing pretty well, except I have laryngitis.

Don't know where I picked this up, came on over the weekend.
My daughter is coming and we are going out for lunch, she took the day off from work, something she does not do often.

[Soaring Feather]

Ah, cute card.

We had some light slush yesterday, but I did not see it happen. I discovered it when I had to go out for an errand. No ice on the walks, but a gathering of stuff on the stair treads.

[Lady Jag]

I am doing pretty well, except I have laryngitis.

Do you have a cold? Hubby has just come up with a cold. I hope you'll be able to talk with your daughter at lunch!

Hugs!

[SoldierDad]

Good Afternoon. Cool picture.

[Lady Jag]

Good afternoon!

Mt. Fuji is photogenic, but that shot is mesmerizing.

[Soaring Feather]

Laryngitis seems to be going away, but now I have cold symptoms. Yikes.

We ordered in- Thai Food, it was okay, but I liked what I had in the restaurant better.

[Soaring Feather]

Good night everyone.

[SoldierDad]

You're certainly right about that. I'd like to visit there.

[tomkow6]

Good morning,

Ms Feather!

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, Tom!

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.

[Soaring Feather]

NASA OKs construction of satellite

NASA has approved construction of a satellite that will scan
the entire sky in infrared light to detect cool stars and bright
galaxies. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, in its design
stage at the University of California-Los Angeles for eight years,
is to be launched late in 2009. It will orbit the Earth and
operate for at least seven months, with data expected to be
broadcast several times daily. Edward Wright, UCLA professor
of physics and astronomy, is WISE's principal investigator.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will
manage the mission, with JPL's William Irace as project manager,
NASA said. WISE will survey the cosmos with infrared detectors
500 times more sensitive than those used in previous survey
missions. Wright said that 99 percent of the sky has not been
observed yet with this kind of sensitivity, and that the survey
should be able to find and observe at least 100 million galaxies
and hundreds of nearby cool stars that are currently undetectable.
"This mission has incredible power for discovery," Wright said. "I
expect that what we find will be amazing. There is still so much
we don't know."

[Lady Jag]

Good morning and happy Friday Eve!

[Soaring Feather]

Oh Lady, I do love that picture, there are few things I enjoy better than flying. Oh for another long flight. ;)

[Soaring Feather]

A few musical selections for easy listening and relaxation.

Toby Keith~Rock You Baby

Al Jarreau~Since I Fell For You

Blue Oyster Cult~Veteran Of The Psychic Wars

Berlin~You Take My Breath Away
Herb Alpert~Tijuana Taxi
Dave Brubeck~Take Five

[Soaring Feather]

Study: Crabs may help coral reefs survive

U.S. scientists say tiny crabs living in South Pacific coral help
to prevent the coral from dying and might provide similar services
in all coral reefs. The University of California-Santa Barbara
marine researchers say the arrangement is symbiotic: the coral
provides a home and protection for the crabs, while the crabs
provide "housekeeping" duties for the coral, routinely removing
accumulations of sediment. The crabs, only four-tenths of an
inch wide, make their home in branching corals such as Acropora
or Pocillopora. "Although we don't know much about these crabs,
we do know they are ... always tasting and exploring," said
Hannah Stewart, first author of the study and a postdoctoral
researcher at UCSB's Marine Science Institute. Stewart said
the family of crabs is common around the world. "This
relationship probably occurs all over the Pacific and is
likely more ubiquitous than we know," she said. "Crabs are
in corals everywhere. There are major ecological implications
to this research; species of crabs that associate with corals
may be more important than we realized." The study appears in
the November issue of the journal Coral Reefs and is also
available online.