“Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they’re the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.” – Diane Ackerman

Fortunately, I saw one. She sat motionless for the longest time, just hanging out in the sun. She patiently allowed me to move around her as if she were a model, as if she were posing. I’m not sure she’d have been so patient with a shorter lens.

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