Rainbow Lacewing Day

I spent the day at The Homestead waiting for our electrician. I found this lacewing fly on one of the bedroom windows and shot it using flash. I like the spectrum and the multiple images.

I found this by Box Elder:

"On the window, etched against winter grey
light, a single lacewing lingers still,
a mark of calligraphic symmetry. Until
death or spring comes to it, we let it stay.

An exercise in curves, it makes its way
quite imperceptibly across the glass. Is the chill
outside the thing it really wants? Do we kill
or save by sheltering its frailty night and day?

Further enquiry, however, makes it clear
this chrysopid green fairy with its netted wings,
if harboured, might yet ride out frost and see
the time when, lion-like, its children will appear
to be a bane to aphids and to other noxious things.
So while it shares the kitchen's warmth, we'll let it be."

The sparky brought a brilliant geophysics device so that he could locate some buried cables. While we were doing it a sharp storm passed through. Fantastic light and a gorgeous rainbow. We didn't find a pot of gold or a Roman wall like on Time Team. :)