I haven’t seen any woolybear caterpillars to “evaluate” but all signs point to an early Winter. We had a spell of dry weather and lots of plants in the yard seem to be closing up early. I have some sedum plants (var. Autumn Joy) and they’re wonderful because they start blooming when everything else in [...]
When my daughter was little, she had a Golden Book Children’s Bible (with illustrations!) that was a read-aloud favorite. She had a favorite chapter too- Exodus! It had vivid pictures of the plagues- like the frogs boiling up out of the river. I recall one night I just couldn’t read that chapter anymore. I’d had [...]
or feeling lost in the wilderness, I still have a better life than this little guy:
Mantis Religiosa, Praying Mantis
I like them. They eat bugs like loathsome earwigs. They live about 10/12 months in a perfect world. But it’s a cold and brutal existence. Sometimes during mating, the female eats the male’s head- extra protein for [...]
Love is in the air
Everywhere I look around
Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound
-Love Is In the Air, John Paul Young, reached #7 on the Top 40 in 1978!
I’m really getting into “bug watching”. It’s like bird watching without the feathers!The same flower beds all summer, but every few weeks a new “star” appears. [...]
Yeah, yeah, school starts tomorrow. But check out the bug! There is a latticework overlay on our front window and yesterday two praying mantisses (manti?) decided it was a nice shady place to hang out. This fellow was fun. He seemed to be looking through the window to check us all out. In the early [...]
Well, I missed the meteor shower! I set the alarm for 3:30 and intended to get up. I heard the alarm, but I was getting my beauty rest and just couldn’t get up! Maybe I can find some video in the news later. I don’t think it would have topped the Leonids meteor shower from [...]
I had to look up “This Day in History” to see what this day is noted for. Um- World War I broke out in 1914. Columbus landed in South America- in 1498, like an afterthought. It’s Jerry Garcia’s birthday-he’d be elgible for Medicare this year.
I took a picture of the flower garden in front yesterday. [...]
I noticed this guy (circled) yesterday buzzing the Russian sage (which smells wonderfully sage-y). They are big, more than an inch long- bigger than a honeybee. The wings make a “hover” sound. At first I thought they were hummingbirds, then realized it was an insect. The top of their body [...]
to offer translations of older works of English literature in contemporary English! I have a theory that 19th century writers were wordy because they had more time to write- no movies or TV! After discovering “Knit the Classics” knittheclassics.blogspot.com , I got the July book- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, out on [...]
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