So I am in love with black eyed Susans lately!  They are everywhere even mom has some growing next to her building in the back yard! I liked the way they looked this morning and Roland has found a new pet!

He found this beast hanging on the screen of our storm door. The cats were endlessly interested in it so much so that Roland found his curiosity piqued. He held it captive one night, to show my mom in the morning.  My mother on the other hand has had met with such a beast in the past.  She remembers playing in her front yard as a young child before she was 5 years old. Sitting  enjoying the day and then suddenly she became the victim of a random attack! A bug just like this one had locked its large mandibles to pinch her bottom!  Showing her this  bug brought all those feelings back. She even glared at it.  It now lives in her garden making amends for its ancestor's actions.

I started watering the garden and it was so quaint and so lovely I had to take some pictures.

They are sunshine in plant form!

Muwah!