[Leica] IMG: Crane fly (bottoms up)

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

You'd better not live in Oak Park, Michigan, if you want to grow vegetables
in your front yard instead of a lawn:

http://www.care2.com/causes/mother-facing-jail-for-growing-veggies.html

Tina

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> I'm anti lawn. Took mine out. Now I don't have one here either.
> We should all take out our lawns and grow vegetables on them. Make salad
> for
> dinner.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
> > From: Larry Bullis <kingfisher at halcyon.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:27:14 -0700
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: [Leica]  IMG: Cranefly (bottoms up)
> >
> > I once had a job to shoot the cranefly and its pupae for a magazine on
> > the West Coast of the US called Sunset, which (even now) has as one of
> > its major foci, gardening. The editor explained to me that craneflies
> > are important pests because the larvae destroy lawns. They eat the
> > roots. He said "You'll love craneflies". I got that particular job, I
> > think, because he knew that I didn't have much use for lawns in
> > residential settings. It's a personal quirk of mine, I guess. I don't
> > like to mow them, I don't like how much water they consume, and I prefer
> > things that I can eat. Mostly, I don't like the neighborhood politics
> > that revolve around them. I could tell stories, I could.
> >
> > A vernacular name for craneflies out here, anyway, is "Mosquito Eaters".
> > They don't. They eat lawns, as you say, George, "Bottoms up".
> >
> > What I like especially about this image is that it is clear, easy to
> > read, and perfectly descriptive. If you have ever seen one of these
> > things, the recognition is immediate.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > On 7/11/11 6:54 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:
> >> NIce almost abstract photo. Cheers, Michiel Fokkema On 10-7-2011 23:25,
> >> George Lottermoser wrote:
> >>>>  <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=5472>
> >>>>
> >>>>  c&c always welcome
> >>>>
> >>>>  Regards,
> >>>>  George Lottermoser
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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