All Creatures Great and Small

GRASSHOPPERS INVADE GUSTAVO'S GARDEN!

Today I opened an email from Rebecca with these photos taken by Gustavo attached. They were invaded yesterday by these hungry hoppers, quite alarmed to find this infestation of large (see tape measure) creatures who had become "occupiers" of a large plant a few feet from their backyard patio dining table. At first they thought it was a "plague of locusts."

Now Gustavo is tender-hearted to all creatures great and small, but even he soon realized that these voracious munchers could quickly decimate the plant if allowed to freely lunch there. This is a large palm-like plant with thick, stiff leaves that I have cleaned up several times in the spring when I visit--an unlikely choice for easy chewing in my opinion.

Well, apparently the wasp spray they found in the garage was not sufficiently lethal. They were forced to witness the rather gruesome and slow demise of these beautiful creatures (that God made, probably from some award-winning angel design). It was not a pretty sight. War never is.

It is unfortunate that sin began in a garden . . . .

All things bright and beautiful,

all creatures great and small,

all things wise and wonderful:

the Lord God made them all.