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This is my entry for the daily photo color challenge. I took this picture while hiking in the Cleveland National Forest last weekend. (Check out my previous post about our hike to Eagle Rock!) When I snapped this shot I thought I was just taking a picture of a pretty flower, but it ended up being a two for one.

After the hike, and after getting cleaned up and making dinner, I started going through all of my pictures. I almost passed over this one thinking it was just like all the other flower pictures I took. However, when I cropped it and zoomed in to admire the clarity and detail, I saw a tiny grasshopper resting on one of the petals. It was quite a nice surprise. I don't know much about the lives of grasshoppers, but I know their song very well. One of the houses I grew up in was surrounded by woods, and when you stepped outside in the evening all you could hear was the grasshoppers singing.

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On the Grasshopper and Cricket
By John Keats

The Poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

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Its amazing how beautiful nature