Nature amok, part 7 - Morning of the grasshopper

I keep hoping, sensibly enough, that, when we are out at 5:45 in the dawn pickin basil, a hedge toad will wander up...alas, no.

This morning, though, disposing of some bolted rapini [twss], a full-on grasshopper crawled on my hand. An old fashioned grasshopper. Didn't even know those were still around...