Haiku

Velvet ant, hurry!
They miss you back at the nest—
don't let me stop you.

Tarantula love:
It's mating season. This is
why they cross the road.

Hey! Did you know that
armadillos jump when scared?
Bodes ill for life span.

Suddenly a shot
Rings out across the valley.
Who has been killed now?

I actually took not one single photo yesterday. I did see a velvet ant but was talking on the phone so could not shoot. It was about a half or three-quarters of an inch long, which is much smaller than the one I'd previously seen—that guy was giant. And yes, there was a lot of gunfire from the ranch across the way: spastic, the-folks-are-away-teens-gone-wild, haiku-inspiring gunfire.