Couple of Cute Bugs

From the Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society photowalk at the Pine Valley trailhead in Kendall Hills. Sometimes I forget how lucky it is to have a National Park right in my own back yard.

Anyway, this shiny little bug is a dogbane beetle. Round, polished, and rainbow metallic.

 

And a katydid on ironweed. There's more antennae there than bug.

The Pine Hollow trailhead is nothing much to look at during the day or evening, but on the right kind of morning, the sun catches the mist rising from Kendall Lake, and the puffy popcorn clouds, and transform the hills. Now if only I could catch that in the camera...