So I'm out shooting bugs and things around the corner, right next to the restricted zone (the area they are supposed to be building a post office on, but there is nothing happening, save for grass growing) and had a pretty good time of it. As I am heading back to the car, I've already collapsed the monopod and am hand-holding the 40D & 100mm when I notice this hornet/wasp checking himself out in my side view mirror. I thought this rather odd as hornets are not known for their vanity, but this guy/gal was definitely checking him/herself out in the mirror. So all my carefully composed shots with the monopod are put to the side for this one hand-held quick shot of a hornet getting ready for a hornet-prom or some-odd social event that hornets attend when it is hot out.

I didn't realize my mirror was so dirty until I looked at it in LR.

This is the photo that would have made my PaD, had it not been for this hornet: