Fiery sentinel, tiny and alert warrior,
green perch glowing from within.
Ready and willing.
 

A chance meeting with a tiny wasp,
its shadow carelessly thrown across a leaf,
needed no longer, called back home
by the sun.

In the brilliant green microwilderness,
a lazy little fly plays tag with its
lazy little shadow.
 

Tag, you’re it.

A baby leafhopper peeks out from the cavernous bowl of a leaf. Summer awaits.

A relic from the past, a ghost of a life. The molted remains of a obsolete chassis, outgrown and forgotten.

Spring still seems far away.

Red and black, and a true bug. Thanks to Diane for the ID.

This cute bug looks ready to leap into the wild unknown of 2009.

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Twice-stabbed Stink Bug | Cosmopepla lintneriana

Pausing to survey its small world from the edge of a leaf, a Soldier Beetle readies for 2009.

A fly finds time to preen, its throne a rust-colored fallen leaf.

An early fall micro-landscape.

See the original Imperial Walker