We're back...
OK, so week before last I was super busy with some last minute stuff for the Virtual Earth launch (more on that later), and then last week we were on a long-awaited vacation -- my first real time off since the beginning of the year. No, "taking the weekend off" doesn't count, as it turns out.
Anyway. We were on Whidbey Island all week, where I made a friend:
Yes, the little critter really does look that odd:
The best part was that after it flew into my chest, and then I plucked it off my shirt and it crawled onto my thumb, it stayed there while I reached over with the hand it was sitting on and took my lens cap off. It's always nice to have a cooperative model.
UPDATE: Turns out, according to a few different sources, that it's a 10-lined June Beetle.