10 Line June Beetle

This is the bug we found outside of work a few days ago. It's just a cell phone picture, but you can see it was really cool. I should have put my hand next to it for scale, but it made hissing noises when we disturbed it, so I was being a scaredy-cat. It was at least an inch long. The best thing about the bug though, was that it changed our entire day. We showed it to customers and co-workers, we looked up where it was from. It made me think partly about how urban even our small city is, that we were all fascinated by this bug. But it also made me think of simple pleasures - if only I could find a bug every day.