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Photo: Patience, Young Grasshopper

This little guy sped up a brick wall in Lorton on Monday.

On Monday morning, Patch was covering a film crew that was at Great Harvest Bread Co. in Lorton. We took all sorts of pictures of expensive movie cameras, actors, extras...

And then — Jiminy Cricket! — there it was, less than a foot away: A grasshopper crawling up the wall outside the coffee shop.

Click, click, click.

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After taking more than 700 pictures on Monday, this one photo of a grasshopper may have been our best shot.

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