And now, for our continuing installment of "Strange Things I Found Eating My Garden", check out this Texas-sized grasshopper. Apparently, they're normally green until they eat something particularly noxious, after which they assume this uglier black & yellow color. This particular fellow is dining on my lemon tree.





I only wish I'd had the camera around the other day when I found a stick bug (maybe 4 inches long) crawling through a bush.