1) I was under impressed by the Fall Occoquan Arts Festival. The highlights were the combination public transport and parking enforcement (this being the first celebration post the new wider bridge over 123, which was lined with cars in years past) and this cool flower. Got a better shot, but my memory card hosed it.

2) Sugar had her first encounter with a cricket Monday night. She, unlike me, doesn't squeak when they jump two feet in the air, and chased it around the place all evening in and out of boxes as if it were a new toy. It finally escaped her clutches, but this evening I found dismembered cricket bits in the hall. It's good to see the cat act like a kitten occasionally, and even better to have a built in exterminator. I hope she handles spiders similarly.