Buggy

This bugger is called a Mormon Cricket.  (But it's not really a cricket; it's a katydid.) We didn't know what it was when we saw it.  It's a monster compared to the Minnesota variety  - the body is about 3 inches long.

That is not a stinger on the back.  This happens to be a female and she rams that wicked looking thing in the ground to deposit her eggs.

Supposedly they got their name because they devastated crops planted by Mormon settlers in 1848.  They still wreak havoc quite regularly in the American west.

Expansively

Just outside of Grand Teton National Park.

Dotty

That red dot in the sky is the sun.  Very smoky evening in Bend, Oregon.

Golfy

Meadow Lakes Golf Course in Prineville, Oregon.  It was actually much more smoky, but I brightened up the image.  See original below.

Curly

Example of what not to do to an airplane.