Rainy day carnivals

The wind is howling in the back yard, tossing branches and stripping the petals off my London Pride. It's been raining off and on, and will probably keep it up for a couple of days; they're promising us thundershowers. It's a good time to stay inside and read some good blogging. Good thing my favourite carnivals are up:

I and the Bird #125 is on Twin Cities Naturalist. Kirk reads the latitude numbers and leads us from 37° South, in Australia, to 50° North, in Germany. (I'm there, at 49° North.)

The Moth and Me #11.  Ted, of Beetles in the Bush, brings us fifteen beautiful moths. Well, thirteen, and two bag moths. None of mine, unfortunately; the moths just aren't showing up around here yet. Except for the tiny Indian Meal moths that I'm feeding to a spider.

House of Herps #6, appropriately on Philly Herping. Snakes, turtles, lizards, mudpuppies, and did I mention snakes? Rattlers!

And the newest of the carnivals; An Inordinate Fondness #4. A road trip, searching for beetles, Jason driving.

Thousands of miles and ...

"Did everyone go to the bathroom? I don’t want to have to stop in fifteen minutes."

... only three bathroom breaks. And no time for lunch. The beetles were fun, though.

Let it rain!

Better than Rio; three carnivals!

I and the Bird # 119 is up, Somewhere in NJ.  Read it twice; once for the essay, the second time round checking the (almost hidden) links.

And the first edition of the beetle carnival, An Inordinate Fondness, has been posted. Yay! A great start, crawling with beetles. I never imagined that a carrion beetle could be so beautiful.

And House of Herps #3 takes us on a ride in a time machine. If you don't mind a bit of an overshoot at first, before Jason figures out the controls. (I didn't have anything for this one; it'll be months before I get to see a snake around here. Does the time machine run forward, too, Jason?)