Tag: water strider

“Echo spoke her love in her love’s own words. Narcissus spoke to himself and heard from his lips his own words return. To bend down and kiss those lips mars the lips – mars the surface with breath. Voice travels through air by moving the air it travels through. Echo’s ear a pond as still as a mirror that breath moves upon to speak. That lake – inside the ear – speaks back. Echo’s love in love’s words. Repetition intones wonder – the world spoken of in other’s words.  All spoken and we speak all back. There are no other words.

"I’ve seen a pond so still it reflects the sky back to itself. I’ll speak to you of it to you. The sky at the bottom of the hill.”

Text: Excerpt from This Nest, Swift Passerine by Dan Beachy-Quick, 2009. Photo: Water strider (Family Gerridae) at the Arboretum at Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona. 

“Echo spoke her love in her love’s own words. Narcissus spoke to himself and heard from his lips his own words return. To bend down and kiss those lips mars the lips – mars the surface with breath. Voice travels through air by moving the air it travels through. Echo’s ear a pond as still as a mirror that breath moves upon to speak. That lake – inside the ear – speaks back. Echo’s love in love’s words. Repetition intones wonder – the world spoken of in other’s words.  All spoken and we speak all back. There are no other words.

"I’ve seen a pond so still it reflects the sky back to itself. I’ll speak to you of it to you. The sky at the bottom of the hill.”

Text: Excerpt from This Nest, Swift Passerine by Dan Beachy-Quick, 2009. Photo: Water strider (Family Gerridae) at the Arboretum at Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona. 

Striders and Stream: The water flowing out of Montezuma Well creates a lovely cool oasis in an otherwise parched environment. Because the water passes through limestone strata it naturally effervesces with dissolved carbon dioxide, which dissipates as the water flows through the irrigation channels toward ancient farming plots. On the day of my visit the gently bubbling water was covered with hundreds of early instar water striders (Gerridae Family).

Please click either photo in the set for full views. 

Striders and Stream: The water flowing out of Montezuma Well creates a lovely cool oasis in an otherwise parched environment. Because the water passes through limestone strata it naturally effervesces with dissolved carbon dioxide, which dissipates as the water flows through the irrigation channels toward ancient farming plots. On the day of my visit the gently bubbling water was covered with hundreds of early instar water striders (Gerridae Family).

Please click either photo in the set for full views.