critter for the day: preying mantis!

What a great little creature I found on the step of my old apartment. Tomorrow my contract here ends. It has been a swift 2 years - how time sure does fly!

It was not a bad two years but I must say, 2 years of living in a poorly...terribly...atrociously insulated (or not even insulated at all!) place makes me really appreciate the new condo we have moved into!