I’m in a 1970 mood today. I just finished reading a book called Glimpses, which is a story about a man that travels back in time to the late 60′s-early 70′s to get some of the great unfinished albums made. This evening I took my father-in-law (who is in his 70′s) to see the local Friday night car show. So I processed this image while listening to Brian Wilson’s Smile CD.

Here is a link to some of the other car photos I have taken on Fridays in Laytonsville.

Found this during a walk of the neighborhood this evening.

The pine spittlebug, Aphrophora parallela (Say), is “often abundant on white, jack pines as well as other conifers”. Spittlebug eggs overwinter on the tips of twigs. On hatching in the spring, the young pierce the bark to feed on the sap and soon cover themselves with a frothy mass of spittle made up of tiny air bubbles coated with the partially digested sap. From May to July, the young move periodically inward on the branch and when full grown, in July, they have usually reached the main stem where many bugs often feed together under large masses of spittle. When the young change to adults in July, the spittle masses soon dry up and a black sooty mold often develops at feeding sites.