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I saw quite a few of these bugs climbing on the stalks of those little flowers that close during the daytime in BVS yesterday.  Some of them were hooked on to another bug (mating I guess).  They looked like little freight train engines connected back to back, especially when they traveled up and down the stalks, like a little engine consist!  

Anybody know what they are?

Well, here is yet another disturbing side effect of modern development: microscopic parking lots and spaces.  My wife and I went to the new shopping center on Tucker, where Subway and Del Taco are, this weekend.  I was driving my F-150 because I had been hauling trash and tree limbs, and I had one heck of a time fitting into the parking spaces there.  Not only is the parking lot very confined, but the spaces are so small it's unbelievable.  I watched a guy in an Expedition try to maneuver into a spot and he had to back up about four or five times, not because he was a poor driver but because it simply is not physically possible to pull right into a spot there with a large vehicle.  

I already know the answer to this question, but I have to ask it anyway, what the heck were the developers thinking???!!!  There are lots of farms and horses in Tehachapi and the surrounding area which means there are lots of large trucks!  Gives us some room!  But of course, I know that a parking space itself does not directly generate revenue.  It does, however, do so indirectly.  And I for one will be hesitant to go to a place where I can't easily fit my truck, and only have six inches on each side!  I love Tehachapi, but this is just another step toward urbanization, with this little town slowly becoming more like big cities.  Bummer.