Hey, you know what's super hard, and also involves looking at really creepy close-ups? Identifying a spider. I knew this was a crab spider, so I had a place to start, and I'm fairly confident its in the genus Misumessus, possibly a female green beauty? Right or wrong, this is a lovely spider I found on a Canada anenome. (I have a much higher tolerance of creepy crawly critters than most people, but still... I rarely describe spiders in terms like lovely or beautiful, but honestly? Look at her... she's just striking.) Note: Canada anenomes are still blooming, but past peak.
The insect was sort of incidental to this picture, for me. I was actually aiming to photograph the coreopsis, which have just started blooming. I just love them, love their frilly petals but mostly I love their color. It's by absolute favorite shade -- those who know me will recognize it as the color of my car, my office walls, several of my running shirts, and close to the color of my spring/fall jacket that I wear for like 6 months a year. And these flowers have such a pure color. Some petals look like the color is watercolored onto white petals (indeed, some flowers, if you rip a petal, you will see white under the color). But these, these look like a pool of pure color, you could dive into it...
I have no idea what this guy is. Some sort of orthoptera, I guess. A young one, maybe. Anyhow, he was hanging out on an impatient at my parents' house yesterday, and I thought he was cute.
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