"Good Morning!"

I swear that's what I heard this morning as I went out front to pick some blackberries for my cereal. I was all by myself today as K took the truck in for some brake work, and Gary and Cecile went to visit their son and daughter-in-law in Portland. So I was foot-loose and fancy-free hunting for berries when I was looking down to see where I could put my foot without getting tangled up in the long thorny brambles and noticed a grasshopper sitting on a leaf. She said "Good morning!" and I said "Well, I'll be!"

I was about to step around her when I noticed she was carrying her baby on her back. At least, that's what I think it was. The "momma" was only about an inch and a quarter long and the "baby" was half that size! The tiniest grasshoppers I've ever seen. So I wondered if I could get a picture of them and my camera, of course, was back in the trailer. I decided to give it a try. I backed out slowly and ran (well, not really) to the trailer as fast as I could, and when I got back down to where I was, the grasshoppers had moved . . . only to the edge of the leaf, though, and I slowly and quietly crept up to capture the moment. Take a look!

Good morning!

I used the Macro to get this shot . . . isn't it cool!