THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WASP

Leaving The Day Gig yesterday, I saw & cell-phone photographed this Tarantula Hawk, one of the largest wasps in the world, & rated as having the second most painful sting of all insects…

OK, I admit it, as a nature photographer, I shouldn’t be expecting a call from National Geographic anytime soon. You’ll have to take my word for it—this was a beautiful (& scary-looking) creature.

RIP to Barbara Stuart, Sgt. Carter’s beloved Miss Bunny on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., passed on at 81, & also to the great Harmon Killebrew, departed at 74.