Update May 3, 2024 (almost 20 years later who keeps a blog that long?!): Polished and cropped the photo using my iPhone’s auto filter. I’m seeing a spike in Google traffic for this photo so I thought I’d share an updated one in preparation for the cicada-apocalypse of 2024!!!

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Don brought this in ON THE KITCHEN TABLE and it was alive and had just been born. Gross, huh!!! But kinda cool, too. I love this pic – makes me think of the cliche “turning over a new leaf” somehow. These things are neat at a distance but the other day as I was coming home from a run, one hit me right smack in the shin and freaked me out a little. I’m easily bug-freaked. Imagine that.