Failing to get a grasshopper-eye view

Grasshoppers keep hopping through October. I realize I've been wanting to join them. Does life grow wilder on a smaller scales? So far, I'm still too high up to begin to tell -- WAY too high -- hovering and towering over my world!

Microscopic looks would reveal worlds within worlds of wilderness inside fallen golden leaves soaked in evaporating parking lot puddles, I remember.  Grasshoppers hop away as I bend and crouch, failing to lean into their everyday scenes. But it's fun to keep trying.

Update, later on 10/21: I added more pictures -- snapped this morning while my Tortoise Cat colleague and I strolled the lawn and parking lot.

Here are several more pictures of this scene, snapped between 8 and 9 a.m. on 10/21:

 

My challenge: Notice nature everyday at any crossing of here and now

I've been wondering why I should blog about nature and science. It seems to me there are more than enough high-quality articles and blogs about every possible topic -- too many to begin to keep up with are published every hour.

Curating fills in many necessary blanks for me, so through Twitter, Facebook and G+ I micro-blog links to press releases, articles and blogs about research, discoveries and theories that link back to original sources. This provides more than enough grist for my mental mill. Here I list scitech and nature links (and links to links) on the sidebar for open-ended perusal, as curiosity tugs and full schedules permit, but I don't sense a calling to blog further.

Mainly for my own fun, entertainment and self-education, here (I wish I could write daily, but more likely it'll be weekly) I will share passing ordinary natural wonders I notice in yards around where I live during my travels, illustrated by photos I snap with my smartphone or tablet. The wildernesses I wander for brief whiles may be urban, rural, beyond or within. All existence hides and reveals wild sides.

When this grasshopper -- perhaps the American Bird Grasshopper of subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Bird Grasshoppers or Bird Locusts) -- hopped onto my path near the front steps I could only wonder why. Hop, hop again and back the mini-jungles in our lawn and garden it was, after that sudden, momentous photo opp.

Primarily, this is a record of wilderness moments that pop open just like that.

Update 10/22: OK, I notice nature and wilderness patches every day, but sharing through blogging gets shoved down my to-do list as I explore and notice more and as I keep freelance-working for a living. Still, keeping this journal for myself will enhance experiencing in the moment, in the long-run, I'm convinced, even if I post mostly pictures.

Also linked on this sidebar and updated occasionally, sporadically: My Freelance Wondering blog will cover science and technology research I have written up, and Freelance Wondering On will list links to projects that stirred questions (with blurts about some).