Last few mild days ask
“Ready to overwinter?”
Cricket moves slowly.
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Last few mild days ask
“Ready to overwinter?”
Cricket moves slowly.
Mellow Curmudgeon 
Nice shot. I love the term “overwinter”.
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Thanks. It took a heavy hand on sliders in my photo editor to make my Kermit as visible in 2-D as in 3-D on the green leaf.
My Kermit is definitely not a frog and may well not be a cricket; as usual, my online search for a critter that looks like it came up empty. Tiny wings did suggest that Kermit is an immature whatever. Dunno whether immature whatevers can overwinter. Yes, [overwinter] is a nice word.
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I think it’s a katydid, which is a form of bush cricket. Some of them are very colorful — orange, pink, green, multicolored — when the young ones (nymphs) started showing up in my yard. Some look a lot like leaves, others more like grasshoppers. Google “orange katydid” and scroll through the images.
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The good news is that Kermit is indeed a katydid. Google suggested “katydid colors” as a search key, and that called up a multitude of thumbnails in a multitude of colors. The only image that looked at all like Kermit looked a lot like him. It was captioned “Young male katydid …” The bad news is that katydids only overwinter as eggs outside of the tropics. It looks like Kermit ran out of time before maturing. That makes the middle line of my haiku more like a taunt than a legit question, so I should do some revising. 😦
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There certainly is pathos in Kermit’s story.
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Beautiful image 👌
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