Seeing this fellow reminded me of Aesop's Fable 'The Grasshopper and the Ant'.
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It was one of those beautiful late summer days here today -- warm yet, but with a hint of that 'something' in the air, a sort of crispness, that reminds one that summer doesn't last forever.
This guy actually gave me a start as I came stalking around the standing seed heads of Queen Anne's Lace.
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When the blue sky opened up earlier today I couldn't help myself: http://www.pbase.com/corvidae/image/33599152
It was a kind of stormy periwinkle color -- just off the normal 'sky blue'.

For an update on my project from Monday you can go here: http://www.pbase.com/corvidae/image/33599182
It's not varnished in the picture, but I've just now finished putting on the first coat.

I really liked this Pincushion Flower, but in the end I was bugged by the flower just to the left. I felt it unbalanced the picture.
Now, I know I could Photoshop it out, but today the grasshopper holds sway, and that spells L-A-Z-Y.
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Let the ants do it!

Oh, I almost forgot about Tash's shadow: http://www.pbase.com/image/33599375
(sorry -- couldn't resist one more)