the most patient katydid

the most patient katydid, originally uploaded by MonicaSmoot.

She tolerated all sorts of poking and prodding from the kids but also put up with me sticking my camera in her face. Later, though, I guess she had had enough. We went out after dark to go Halloween shopping and she was still there on the sidewalk. Lili got too close and the katydid jumped onto her leg and then jumped away into the bushes. It scared the you know what out of Lili.