It's Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth", with the locust's cousin this time. That really is a good catch, Jeff, finding beauty in an infestation. I'd bet a close macro, where we'd see only the lace within the frame, then playing around with color saturations, would make for a rather interesting abstract. Just a thought.
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