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Liftoff!

On Friday, I took the bears down to Westmoreland Park so they could run around and work up an appetite for the dinner the best offered to make if I'd only get the Pedestrians Of the Apocolypse out of her hair for a while. So we went, and they ran around and played in their ususl hyperactive shrew on crack cocaine way. About 10 minutes into project burn off spare energy, Russell came running over saying that he'd caught a ladybug and that I needed to take a picture of it. I didn't have the telephoto lens on the camera, but I managed to take one picture of his hands just before he said "oh, no, it's flying away" and went chasing off after this poor little beetle.

Today, I took a look at the pictures on the camera, and there's the ladybug, caught just as it was opening its wingcovers and jumping into the air:


Liftoff!