1 August, 2010

I did absolutely nothing noteworthy, so I decided to take a picture of a grasshopper! We've had an abundance of these little guys this year (though we've mostly had the tiniest, most adorable yellow ones). However, the small ones are extremely twitchy and were strangely absent when I went out with my camera (the birds have been engaging in feeding frenzies in our yard and I can't help but to wonder if that explains the declining grasshopper population).

This guy kept doing a funny shuffling routine around the stem of this coneflower in an attempt to escape my camera. I guess he didn't want his picture taken, but wanted to leave his comfortable perch even less!