Katy

Littles 

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle

Just when you I thought cute couldn't get any littler, something drops in on us, in the kids' upstairs room, snuggled amongst the LPS furniture.

It's only about a half-inch long with green markings, threadlike antennae, and long back legs. 

A katydid, with a twinkle in her eye, our precocious Second Granddaughter declared. I know my insects, she affirmed. She's been learning from her walks around the Blacklick forested property with her Dada.

Katy what, did you say? 

As I've learned since then, a katydid, also called a bush cricket or a long-horned grasshopper, is a bug belonging to a family of insects related to grasshoppers and crickets.

To our delight, Katy has taken residence with us, one day gently treading on the narrow foliage of a draecena stalk by the dining table downstairs (left).

Or flying out to the computer

stand nearby (right).

And then scurrying back down the leafy sanctuary of the spider plant across (left).

Or even venturing, watching us, from atop a lit bamboo in the corner (below, left).

Light has changed to the light of early evening. I feel a chill breeze. It will soon be time to close the shutters.

I don't see Katy. She must have sought solace in the shadows somewhere.

Perhaps when I'm in bed, with not a light on so even the house feels asleep, I just might hear a musical chirp as Katy rubs her front wings together. 

The low and pure frequency of her katy-did, katy-didn't song.

Katy. Photo, V.E.V. January 2021