UDC793: Tumblr Edition

Taeniopterygidae are a family of stone flies with about 80 described extant species. They are commonly called willowflies or winter stoneflies and have a holarctic distribution. (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp9Iy6WsjAdoc7Vi8o3JSdXkfX2Lp3FQAEMW-E0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Corbicula fluminea is a species of freshwater clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Cyrenidae. This species is often confused with Corbicula fluminalis due to the two species' similar colour and texture. (at Theodore Roosevelt Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8jdXkpd4xh-bjO8MTS4TTJScYvugfidDwKo00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Anthocomus equestris is a species of soft-winged flower beetle in the family Melyridae. It is native to Eurasia, but also found in the eastern half of the United States. (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp4v2ueuxY6WF4OZvIZ-LWXsBI_eVbb29xTcRA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the true thrush genus and Turdidae, the wider thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family. The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpyogtJMGSEmkRSQ0L7q7nyqUhaz6ttiBRRu-Q0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The past remains hidden in clouds of memory. Still it returned us to memories from a thousand years before. Such a moment is the reason for a pilgrimage: infirmities forgotten, the ancients remembered, joyous tears trembled in my eyes. -- The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Oku no Hosomichi | おくのほそ道) by Matsuo Bashō (1702) (at Boston, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYjwibOvW8sHHgKqCTDgkh7d4YnSQHtwq83ZU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

One no longer dined at two o'clock; one could no longer skate on Back Bay; one heard talk of Bostonians worth five millions or more as something not incredible. Yet the place seemed still simple, and less restless-minded than ever before. -- The Education of Henry Adams (at Cambridge, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpX1hKnux2_5gQaeVyNwonUMmuH3Y_P-eH8umQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland ground bird native to North America and is the heaviest member of the diverse Galliformes. It is the same species as the domestic turkey, which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of wild turkey (not the related ocellated turkey). Although native to North America, the turkey probably got its name from the domesticated variety being imported to Britain in ships coming from the Levant via Spain.... (at Harvard University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpXdfueu-QVbFee09nXfktF53Z2rLj54XWhiaY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It was in Boston that I found her at last, forlornly swaying to the oscillations of an overhead strap in a crowded trolley-car. Her face had so changed that I lost myself in a startled reckoning of the time that had elapsed since our parting. She spoke to me shyly, as though aware of my hurried calculation, and conscious that in five years she ought not to have altered so much as to upset my notion of time. Then she seemed to set it down to her dress, for she nervously gathered her cloak over a gown that asked only to be concealed, and shrank into a seat behind the line of prehensile bipeds blocking the aisle of the car. -- The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton (at Boston, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpWciRPMs-JNjycEhz24LgvNJjZWpO3FcodBDY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The chance, at any rate, was worth taking; Cambridge, moreover, was worth seeing, and it was as good a way as another of keeping his holiday. It occurred to him, indeed, that Cambridge was a big place, and that he had no particular address. -- The Bostonians by Henry James (at Cambridge, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVEvuOoeFrXUbsBh0J6SVndSuxYeoxEUGzOrY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

And I dreamed down at the clouds, and thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides as no other generation of men has done, one should be able to accept his death very easily. -- Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow (1959) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpS53B3Jjx2m2ZuC-7miYZe22vrXXMGrfv8i600/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The old cherry tree’s final blossoms are her last cherished memory -- Matsuo Bashō (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpLKlFZuhsxMfe1b1b29MjZ2EtM-0i3ToVPhfQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

While we’ve lived our lives they’ve survived to still blossom, these old cherry trees -- Matsuo Bashō (1702 (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGdxxyJR3CH0uDIDHFkO3bF28YTQp5vmkRkKk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom -- Matsuo Bashō (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpC5-Qku-QEbVdO_MObN6P5S0HXD1fFBi1GeCE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Celastrina ladon, the spring azure, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in North America from Alaska and Canada south of the tundra, through most of the United States except the Texas coast, southern plain and peninsula Florida; south in the mountains to Colombia. (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpB9_7eszanjAZsjogiYyhkfweN_1WpclcIbYI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A lovely spring night suddenly vanished while we viewed cherry blossoms -- Matsuo Bashō (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpA5ceJpGpXlwWYU3x1jhYEIpmTo_RU100RV6Y0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Things beyond number, all somehow called to mind by blossoming cherries -- Matsuo Bashō (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co9ym3BuGfKjXa7v1K-cT2OUtspIbKmWZ-JmZY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

To blossoming cherries, we recite Buddha’s blessing most gratefully -- Matsuo Bashō (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7wjJSul-adO6OH0-x48szop1gI8QOSObu03A0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=