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June 09, 2007
The garden is out of control...
I should post some pics of the garden for you...I was just looking at pics of it from just a few weeks ago and today its gone completely crazy...and it'll get even bigger as the sunny summer days crank along...I've spotted some swallowtail chrysalis from all those caterpillars that were eating the dill/fennel a few days ago...and a few are starting to hatch in the yard...I posted the pic of the freshly hatched Monarch (from a few weeks ago)...I've had monarchs in the garden fighting with one another, as well as a Queen butterfly...yesterday I took a pic of the bananas in the garden where 20+ tawny emporers were feeding...I'd never seen so many butterflies all at once...the whiptail made an appearance, and while I was shooting him, a female hummer was right in front of me drinking...when I moved my camera ever so slightly to take her pic, she flew off...they are REALLY aware of their surroundings...
anyway, the garden is out of control and I love it...I'm glad its such a small space, its fun to cram it full of flowers and its easy to take care of...we have to do a lot of watering here, and its no fun to do when its hot and humid...so a small garden works for me (it felt like 97 at 10:00pm last night - awesome)...
Anyway, I've cleaned and strung the recent beads into bracelets, but I'm gonna wait to post them till early next week...today - we are moving my studio out of the dark little room I"m in now, and into a sunnier space...I used to have such a nice bright studio, and I need more light...should take lots of time and be interesting to say the least...I'll take pics and letcha know how it goes...deep breath..
Posted by Donner at June 9, 2007 10:31 AM