Ed Sullivan was a hoot. Sundogs ?! In Rochester you could hardly have a summer sun near sunset without them. The lake must have helped.

Insect: I found a Dobson Fly. 6 inches long with 2 1/2 inch pincers all for show. It lives in that form to mate 24 hours maximum then dies. The one I found must have already gotten lucky.

Blue bugs in Maryland , maybe, but I don't have a sustained sighting. MD is good for UFOs. I have seen 3 here in 7 years. Pretty rare but they were all different. A 4th UFO I did not see but heard (since the sound was so ominous I did not have the timarity to go outside and look) As a musician the sound is clear in my mind to this day. In short it was as if an electrical power plant passed 10 feet over your roof with a throbbing hum. My wife was even less likly to get up and look. At the time we both said nothing but we still remember it 6 years later. I swear my unlikly reaction to the sound was that it was "saying" - danger stay away - , but it was unlike me to actually stay away.

Another bizarre lifeform Gymnophilus Spectobilious - Big Laughing Jim is what Americans in MO call this mushroom. It grows on logs like Shitake but I have never eaten one. They were available through a mail order house in IN. I am sure there are some at the American Type Culture Depository which is a couple miles from me. Perhaps it should not be located 10 feet from the railroad tracks since it has all the spores and micro organisms that are fit and unfit to keep. This is where whackos ordered their Anthrax before security checks became a bit more stringent.

Well thats it for my [fright nite] friday night post.