Woolly bear! , originally uploaded by Ali Crehan.

It’s turning into the Scituate Daily Critter Photo around here lately, isn’t it?

For those of you who are wigged out by bugs, I apologize. This woolly bear isn’t nearly as traumatizing as the close-up of a giant preying mantis I inflicted upon you last year, right? And here’s the great thing about the woolly bear – SPRING!!!!!

(Slight pause so we can all do the happy dance of joy together)

This little fellow was making his determined way across my driveway. He’s survived the winter in his caterpillar form and is now off to eat as much as he possibly can before pupating and becoming a tiger moth. (He will then concuss himself nightly against my front door light and make my cats insane in the process, but that’s an entirely different post.)

And on a side note, I do not recommend lying down on your driveway in early March to take photographs if you are on crutches, because the pavement is cold and it takes a loooooong time to get back into an upright position.

SPRING!