Day two hundred and twenty-four: Just as I sat down for lunch today on the patio at work, an extraordinary and wonderful thing happened: a praying mantis landed on my back and crawled up onto my shoulder. You should have seen the face of my friend, Samantha, when it happened! Next it flew about and landed on Samantha’s fork. I convinced it to crawl on my plastic knife, where I took it’s photograph with my iPhone before putting it among the leaves of a nearby tree. This sketch tries to capture a bit of the mantis’s alien-like appearance and its bright green color. I felt so excited and special when it landed on me, but also relieved it didn’t make it onto the bare skin of my neck. Yikes!
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