High ANT-xiety

It's a cold and dreary day here. We've had a few sprinkles, but not really enough to even measure in the rain gauge. It's just misty out there.

I don't know if the weather had anything to do with this, but when I came back to the house from doing morning chores, I noticed a flower pot in the rosebed had what looked like a lot of dirt all over the edges.

When I got closer, I realized it was NOT dirt. After all, dirt doesn't usually move on its' own.

No, indeed this "dirt" was actually a moving mass of ANTS! The pot and the plants in it were positively polluted with ants.

I've never seen them on a pot out in the open in such masses. There were creepy crawling piles of ants all over!

I kept a safe distance while taking pictures. Over the past few years I've developed a sensitivity, if not a downright allergy, to ant bites. Makes me feel kind of sorry for the poor gnome...
He's being tortured by ants crawling all over his stumpy body.

Just looking at all those ants was enough to give me the creeps.
High ANT-xiety indeed!