The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Designers of alien creatures in movies seem to get their inspiration from insects. Look at the shape of the head. And the eyes. Lose the feelers, put head and eyes on a human-like body and you have an alien.
Sam took these photos. The grasshopper landed on one of the desks in her bedroom and stayed long enough — posed long enough — to allow her to snap a few. The blue thing at the bottom right corner of the pic? The cap of a bottle of alcohol.
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
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Great shots! Keep it up, Sam. =)
This is a praying-mantis alien-creature. Not a grasshopper.
ghoppers are fatter than this.