The Miracle of Life #1

Yesterday when I got home Chiemi and Chiaki were kneeling on the ground staring intently at a pot plant. "Come and look at this", they said. Isn't he a beauty! An emerging cicada (semi). Rei had found him at the local temple as an intact nymph. He started popping out around 8:00 and by 9:30 or so was at the stage of the second photo. We eventually grew tired of staring at him and put him outside on the balcony. Pot plant, cicada and all. By morning he was gone.