This hot and very sunny Florentine Summer is slowly coming to an end.
I'm gonna miss the green leaps of grasshoppers and rhythmic lullabies of crickets...
Helga Aichinger, illustration from Das Heupferd, c.1970, thanks to Arthur van Kruining
1970s grasshopper from California found at Fears and Kahn
Antonio Frasconi illustration from See and Say, thanks to art.crazed
Vyacheslav Legkobit thanks to kievljanka
illustration from The Tall Grass Zoo by Winifred and Alfred Lubell, 1960
Violeta Lopiz, El bichito
Mike Libby at Insect Lab
...and we will miss those sounds when all is covered with snow this winter. Delightful post!
ReplyDeleteThey were ALL over the place in Sàrmede this summer — I miss them!
ReplyDeleteGreat post, it made my day...
The sounds of summer slipping away...but then there's beautiful autumn to cheer us up! Lovely collection, Laura. Thank you!
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