Praying Mantis Mosaic Mailbox

 Fall 2006

The praying mantis is lying on a big white daisy on top of my mailbox.

In front she is holding an "ootheca," a praying mantis egg case

 on which I wrote PEACE, with hopes that by springtime, when 300 baby praying mantises ‘emerge,’

we will have No More War.  Her name is "Phoenix."