When you do yard work and keep finding distractions

Not bad for an iPhone pic.

Woke up to a cool morning that makes you want to open all the windows to flush out the air-conditioning that has kept us from melting in the heat of the past few months.

Decided to catch up with some yard work, but I was immediately distracted by a Walking Stick. When its movement caught my eye, it really did look like a stick. It was about an inch and half long and so delicate.

I moved it to a leaf for a pic. It was unhappy and jumped back to the leaf litter.

So I moved on and found a beetle, I thought. When I nudged it, I discovered it was an empty carcass. I wonder how it lost its head.

The headless beetle.