The further adventures of an earthbound alien

I had a passing thought about where the bees are going. And I figured that they just wised up and went somewhere where they could start a little jar of their own.
Is it the cell phones? Is it pesticides? Is it the mother ship calling them back? Will the earth die in two years without our busy stingy little honey making’ friends?
Probably not.Honey bee...

I can say this with confidence because I know that if I’m wrong we’d all be dead and no one would come up to me and say that I was way off base with that whole bee thing.

Bea Arthur...

What I want to know is, have there always been bees? Were there prehistoric bees that pollinated the prehistoric plants? There had to be, right? And if there weren’t what did those plants use to get pollinated, Triceratops? Wouldn’t that be funny, the reason they had those three horns was to stick them in flowers and gather their sweet, sweet prehistoric nectar.
Granted, pretty much all the prehistoric plants are all dead now (and cost almost $4 per gallon) but for a couple billion years the plants did all right without bees. How did they do it?
I also want to know how much of the workload butterflies and humming birds carry. If the bees were gone would the butterflies quit flitting around and step up?
I’ve heard that the wild bees aren’t affected. Is this a good thing? The domestics disappear and the wild bees fill the void. Are we ready for wild bees? It would be like if all our cats died and they were replaced with Pumas. That would sure liven things up.
And what about the ducks?
I’m just saying…

Anyone reading this for the first time might think I had a little obsession with fire. Well, I kind of do. After all, “Fire Good!”
The truth is fire seems to have an obsession with Southern California this year. Here’s some news: it’s dry!

Here we see Catalina Island on fire. The buildings in the foreground a part of the little town of Avalon. I didn’t take this picture but I could have. We had a little mix up in our plans and didn’t go this weekend. Granted, if they let us across on the boat we would have arrived there about 15 hours after the fire started and we would have been 15 miles away. So, when I say we could have, what I should say is: “there’s no way” we could have.

Not that it really means anything to anyone but, the hills are alive again. …With the sound of fire. This time our little 3,000 acre Griffith Park was set ablaze and burned all night. Just thought you’d like to know. Anyway, it’s better than looking at snow.
That cloud behind the feature animation building isn’t a rain cloud. Don’t be ridiculous! It’s 3,000 acres of sagebrush and California Oaks drifting it’s way up into the atmosphere.