Random

The daylilies are in full shout, and I saw my first (and so far, only) cicada of the year.

We are blessed with rain and moderate temperatures-- those leaves below poking through the porch floor are the top of a six- foot plus poke weed growing below.

 

Have You Ever Really Looked...

... at a cicada?  This one is a green and gold work of art. . .

. . . with eyes of cabochon jade . . .

. . . and wings so lovely that one artist makes earrings of them.

I'm thinking it would be fun to do an embroidered cicada with silk and metallic threads -- and jade beads for eyes.

Look at the way the veins in the wings shade from green to yellow to orange -- magnificent!