Katydid invasion

The sound in our yard is overwhelming. I don’t often see them so was surprised to find two on my back deck.
59 years ago my parents married. Last year I traveled to Wisconsin to be sure he didn’t spend the day alone. This year I FaceTime chatted. He reminisced about anniversaries that they celebrated and about those that were ordinary days with a special dinner thrown in (one even at Applebee’s- sounds like a country song: