smittenbyu | ladybugs!

After dinner, I was the computer (which sits on our dining table) passing time and N was on the couch (that's to the right of the dining table, maybe three feet away) reading a book. As he turns his head to say something to me he notices a bug flying around our lamp post that's right by the couch. He gasps and shouts, "arrhghh! wasp!" I laugh and confidently say, "it's not a wasp!"N as he moves quickly away comments, "how can you be sure?"

As I go closer to get a better look and the bug lands on the Mardi-Gras beads that hang off the side of our lamp, I shout in glee, "it's a ladybug!!!!" wow... haven't seen one in decades!! I was surprised at N that he never saw one before! We got it to get on an envelope so we could go and set it free somewhere outside. But it seemed so happy on those green beads. I wonder what was on it that was so appealing to it?! hmmmm...

Anyhow, we watched it for sometime in utter happiness and then let it go out on the stairwell away from the freezing AC.