In the garden today…

as is the case nearly every day, I found evidence of life…

and death.

Did you know that the “expected” life span of a butterfly is about 2 to 14 days?  Oh, there are some species that can live for months, but the expected life span is very, very short.
What would you do with two […]

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I’m actually okay and able to move after all my cleaning yesterday!  How I loved waking up to a clean, quiet house this morning.

I walked through the garden before I started my work day.  The sun was very bright.
Mary over at Across the Pond was writing about urns yesterday.  I was not sure I had one, but […]

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I was thinking of you in the garden today.  Yes, you. 

I was thinking that one can never have enough thyme…

to stroll in the garden, that is.

Look at the red-banded hairstreak!

and the liatris.

Black-eyed Susan.  Summer makes bright colors!

Maybe more of crepe myrtle’s snow will cool things down.

Look at the insects hanging out underneath the Achillea bloom.  […]

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I walked outside today on my break and spotted this gorgeous sight: a black swallowtail butterfly sitting in an orange daylily.

The swallowtail was so busy with the daylily, in fact, that it allowed me to get ever closer and just stand and admire its beautiful wings.

Aren’t butterflies simply beautiful? 
There’s something else to share.  My sweet husband brought […]

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I went out yesterday and looked at my beautiful mint garden.  There was a great big red admiral butterfly there!

I just love seeing the butterflies.  The red admiral feeds on nettles, and I do have some nettles growing close by.  I suspect that is why it was visiting us.

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I have to work this afternoon (sigh) but this morning has been full of wildlife adventures.  My husband had cut a limb off of a big tree in the backyard about three days ago.  The tree was leaning pretty bad.  In addition, this huge limb was shading (and killing) our garden.

Early this morning (before breakfast) […]

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Thought I’d give a long-winded answer to that question.  Maybe someone out there wants to know, and perhaps it’ll help my scattered thoughts to answer the question even for myself!
First of all, we got rid of our cat, Tabby.  It was a sad thing to do, but in light of my husband’s ongoing immune related […]

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This is the first black swallowtail caterpillar I have seen this year.  It was out on the bronze fennel.  This is called the first instar.  It is between molts.  I will post pictures of the various stages as I find them in the garden.

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