I was taking kitchen scraps to the compost pile when I saw this grasshopper. I went back and got my camera. He had not moved. Most of the time when something like that happens, by the time I return to the spot, the insect is gone!

Here is the story to go with my fire picture: Arson is suspected in house fire Arson investigators are looking into a fire that burned a vacant house Saturday and singed two others in northwest Oklahoma City. Early reports were that someone set the fire at 2309 W Lindley just before noon, said Bobby Lax, a battalion chief with the Oklahoma City Fire Department. Two vagrants who were inside the single-story house escaped uninjured, but the house was a total loss, Lax said. The vacant house sustained about $20,000 in damage, while the adjacent houses each sustained several thousand dollars in heat damage, Lax said.

Photos are gorgeous...And, Jim, I'm longing for the warmth of anywhere....Being in SW. Pa is no picnic at the beach, lol

Red Bellied Woodpecker fueling up in the frigid blowing snow.