Knocking around the zoo on a Saturday afternoon in a zoo-style trick or treat extravaganza we happened upon the same Praying Mantis we encountered months before in downtown Louisville.

Roaming Kentucky-based praying mantis courtesy of Squallis Puppeteers -- supplying creatively ugly puppets for such functions as the Louisville Zoo trick-or-treat night and the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. Because what says reproductive freedom better than a ten-foot-tall praying mantis?




Here is the very rarely seen "gummy Dorothy" from the "Wizard of Floss".






We carved our pumpkins -- mine is the self-portrait on the right.




Tammy-Faye-o-Lantern!




We also returned to Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge on the way back home.





This is the same tree that attacked her in the Spring.




That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.