Ants.

Ants. Those pesky little creatures who run on perfumery. It's picnic time in the valley so they're out and around. But I haven't seen any great numbers crossing my path in the morning. It's more like a straggle here and there. This morning the question arose in my mind (where ever that is) about whether there is a correlation between the number of ants and the temperature. Sort of like crickets and their chirping. Who's to say. I see an immediate challenge in determining the number of ants. When they start out they occur more or less as random individuals. Then as numbers increase they tend to form columns. But the columns do not usually form in the same place every day. A serious sampling problem. Of course I could count ants just in one block but I think the residents might get nervous about an old man staring at the sidewalk.
Ants are proof that we're all on this flight together.
Dick