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~ November, 2009 ~

November, 2009 Featured by Southern-Style: A Downhome Perspective Group
October, 2009 Featured by ImageWriting (2/24) Group

Growing up my Grandmother King made certain that I was wise in the ways of
many things, including predicting the harshness of the winter the way my
ancestors had done it; based on the color of the “Wooly Bears” coat.

First, you had to be lucky enough to find one so imagine how excited I was
when while on our recent trip I found this beautiful fellow laying just off
our hiking path.
The only problem was that I had never seen a “white/yellowish and black”
wooly bear before and did not remember my grandmother allowing for this color variation in her winter weather forecast which typically was to be
applied as follows:

- The longer the black bands, the longer, colder, snowier
and more severe the winter will be.
- The position of the bands indicates which parts of winter will be the coldest.
- If the head is dark, the winter starts out severe
- If the tail is dark, the end will be cold

Musing maybe only “northern” Wooly Bears need be dark red and black
due to the extreme nature of the winters in Michigan I considered that
the winters in Arkansas or Mississippi were just outside her area of
expertise so I did a Google looking for white Wooly Bears.

According to my Google, what I have here may only be fondly and forever
known to me as a “Wooly Bear”, while more specific to its bug-hood
it is as I can judge an American Dagger Moth Caterpillar.

So maybe I can’t predict the harshness of the winter now or ever,
but I would bet based on how busy this guy seemed that as my
grandmother used to also say,
“Whatever the weather, we’re going to have weather, weather or not!”

Let THAT be a lesson to you! ;o)
~by TLC 2009

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