Something Unexpected....

Sometimes, when we think that everything is ugly in the world, unspeakably ugly -- politics, the complete idiocy of political brinksmanship at public expense, the idiocy of Sarah Palin, the idiocy of journalists who keep showing pictures of her, on and on -- an image appears that reminds you that ugly things aren't always ugly.  Sometimes, it's your point of view.  I mean that quite literally.

Consider the fish fly.  In Minnesota, we called them May Flies.  It's unclear why.  They appeared in June, invariably.  In Michigan, they appear in late May or early June, and they're called Fish Flies.  They are just awful.  They cover windows with their totally useless bodies.  They are born, they eat nothing, and they die in 24 hours.  What possible utility do they have?  And they smell.  And they accumulate in DRIFTS (you can sweep them up).  Outside the studio, they formed a kind of coral reef (remember that reefs are the skeletons of creatures, so you surely can have a reef of fish flies).  Ugly.  Well........

Just look what Larry saw.  Larry managed to make them beautiful.  There is a moral here.