In A Little Boy’s World

 

A little boy lives in the suite upstairs. There are times the front “sandbox” (an area that won’t sustain grass so John filled it with a nice thick layer of sand) looks like a parking lot.

Incidentally, in an earlier post, I posted a picture of a bug grasping a pebble. In a comment on that post, Tee suggested that it might be a pine beetle. That started me on a search. I have discovered that it isn’t a pine beetle, but a White Spotted Pine Sawyer beetle. It feeds on dying, dead or decaying pine trees and is indigenous to our area (Washington, British Columbia, Alberta). And yes, as Tee wrote, it has the capability of inflicting a good chomp!