4 Hours of Driving to Say Hello To a Praying Mantis

We drove to Pasadena to see my daughter, a freshman at CalTech ,where she reports the classes are hard. There was a moon up on the drive at 4 or so in the afternoon
and the smog going in was awful. LA smog is lousy.


When we got there it was a quick dinner at a good French restaurant with her roommate and another friend. And then back home. Syl pointed out a Praying Mantis, which I do not think I have seen one since living in West Virginia. They LIED and said it was "endangered" and I wanted to take it home to live in my class.....I'm still suffering this actually. And it was sitting on the CalTech Directory. So...I got pictures of him and the dead mouse that was by the car as I went to go. Courtesy of my cats. They like to give me these kinds of presents.
It's not so easy getting back in the car and leaving your daughter to her life in college.
But I saw her....