The cutest little thing in the world

My mom and I have always loved tiny things. I'm sure I somehow inherited this from her. All through my childhood I loved tiny examples of things and used to proclaim that something was "The cutest little thing in the world!". The saying began with a tiny horse, and then, over time, became a funny saying in my family, remembering how fascinated I was. To this day she and I both still collect little things and often give them to each other as gifts.

One evening while Karen and I were in Colorado, we were sitting on the sofa watching the Olympics. Karen was working on the scarf she is knitting for me. Suddenly she gasped and said "Oh my goodness!". She pointed to the piece of paper on her lap on which the knitting pattern was printed. I looked, but didn't understand. She pointed again and told me to look closer. I squinted a little and followed the line of her finger. Oh my goodness! On her page, moving along as fast as it could, was the very smallest inch worm ever. After watching it in amazement for a few moments I ran to get my camera and macro lens to try and capture an image. The little sucker was moving quickly so the photos aren't great, but he truly was "the cutest little thing in the world". A note about the scale: the letter/number pairs on this sheet of paper are just over 1/8th of an inch across!