Photo of the Day (6/8/06)

I’ve always liked grasshoppers… so very alien in form, yet so very nostalgic of the summer evenings of my youth spent capturing these long-legged freaks of nature.  This particular hopper comes to us compliments of Tom’s recent trip to the Amazon basin in Ecuador.  I love the bright greens and the buggy eyes.  I still don’t understand, however, how people actually eat these things in certain parts of nature.  Ugh.