1 more picture above in a note! :)

The other night I got up to use the bathroom in the dark, and on the way out, I kicked something with my foot. I turned the light on and found this awesome looking wasp. It must have found its way into the house and died, but I thought it was too pretty to just toss in the trash. Before I took pictures, I washed the dust off as best as I could, and when I looked at the images, I realized it still had droplets of water on it! I decided to turn this into a textured piece, and I had so much fun with this picture that I made the other one into a textured piece as well! :)

Thanks to Jerry Jones for Notaclue 1 and Fire Damage 10-21-09 TOTD # 87

From Wiki:
The blue mud dauber is a metallic blue species of mud dauber wasp that preys primarily on black widow spiders. It does not build a nest, but uses nests abandoned by other mud dauber wasps. Like other mud daubers, it is rarely aggressive.

If you would like to know more about this beautiful wasp, I found a fascinating page about this wasp here: Bug Eric's Wasp Wednesday: Blue Mud Dauber