Summer is a Bag of Frozen Peas

That's right. You heard it here first, in case you were living in a large cave without your iPod. Summer sucks this year. There is no sun. There is no heat. The bugs live off of people! In fact, one flew away with my wallet last Wednesday afternoon.

Meet the bugs of Northwestern Ontario:

Perhaps they are not exactly life size, as I've seen the Pine Sawyer Beetle as large as my foot one year. And they bite! Anything. Anyone. Because they are blind, if they land on you and if they believe that you might resemble a pine tree, they'll chomp.

And then I found this: The Tree of Life Web Project. I clicked on the Angiosperms (that is flowering plants, *Steve*), but you can click on whatever you like. The collaborative project has been contributed to by biologists and nature enthusiasts to gather information on the history of evolutionary existence of life forms on our planet: Phylogeny. In other words, we have all come from the same tree of life. The single celled life forms of this planet are your ancestors, mine too, and let's not forget the ancestors of the damn mosquito as well.

signed, the nerd botanist willow