Bugs View of Life

I was sitting outside in the late evening the other night watching the sheep. The sun was at a low angle and I was looking toward the west. In the stream of light I could see literally hundreds of insects, big and small, flying back and forth, different levels, different directions. As far as I could see the air was filled with creatures. It reminded me of one of those cartoons depicting the future, when we would all be flying everywhere on different levels in the sky. You know, one of the 1965 cartoons predicting what the year 2007 would bring. I walked out into the pasture and put my hands out. trying to catch some of the insects to see if they were all the same species and what they were. The sheep clearly though I was nuts, any neighbors who drove by probably thought so too. I came to the conclusion that they were all different sorts of bugs, big burly flies, fast flying mosquitoes, tiny gnats of some sort. I don’t know if this was an exceptional night for bug journeys or if I could see them this night because the angle of light was just right. Sometimes you are just in the right spot at the right time and a whole new world opens up to you.