a feature & a fuzzy find

this was a short week, as i have had the last couple days off to try and use up some vacation time before that gets really difficult, now that our staff has further dwindled starting this weekend - yes, our internship is now defunct, which is sad in a variety of ways....

anyway, after shooting some folks packing up backpacks with school supplies for kids in need, i went looking for a feature - ended up at the pool with the little splash park area - it's been more consistently hot recently, so i figured it was about that time, and there was NO ONE out in the neighborhood i was driving around in...anyhoo, saw these 2 brothers playing in the spraying - pretty typical splash park feature, but still liked their energy and reaction....

home for the evening, and i was sitting on the porch doing a puzzle when i spotted this furry caterpillar crawling up the wall - i haven't seen one of these in years! when i was little, we used to see the brown and black striped fuzzy ones all the time - i'd always catch one and put it in my bug catcher and feed it - they were kind of like mini pets til i let them go (or they otherwise left, if ya get my drift)....using the nifty camera on this laptop, i decided to make some pictures of it, and then i let it go - so here's our joint 15 minutes of fame put out here for the general public to enjoy