More Luna Moth

Too pretty, can't stop taking pictures of giant luna moths! Please note the lovely straw-colored antennae and how it contrasts with the lilac shading along the top of the wings. Pretty! Giant bugs are pretty!

update: the moth was eaten and two sad wings were found on the ground. Nature red in tooth and claw...

For Allison

First Harvest from the garden!

Radish thinings and chive flowers made into a salad with pears, goat camembert, buttery salad greens, and carrots. Miss Critterpants ate only the cheese and the carrots, but bravely sampled a chive flower.

Giant Moths

Rain!

It rained all day yesterday! A good, gentle, soaking rain. I've been out stomping slugs. Here is my slug-chewed horseradish. It may not look like much, but I've been told once horseradish has established itself, you can never get rid of it. Just one tiny bit of root will regrow the plant. I'm not exactly sure if one leaf on a root chunk is considered established.

Chickens

I want a couple of chickens, five at the most, to provide fresh eggs and bug control. Our neighbors think it's hilarious for a city girl to want chickens and planted ceramic birds in the yard while we were out. Miss Critterpants has claimed them and gives them mud baths in her garden box.

Someday we're getting chickens, a straight run of easter egg chickens from Cackle Hatchery, in a few years when Miss is in school and I can't travel like I do now. Easter egg chickens lay blue, green and sometimes even pink eggs! A straight run is a mixed group of chicks, so there are boys and girls sent to you in the same box. Once they arrive and mature it is a game of survivor, one rooster stays, the others also stay. They stay very, very still in the freezer.

Little Bitty

tiny blueberries

tiny grape buds

raspberry buds with enormous bumblebee.

blackberry flower bud

Tiny tiny plum





It's still early spring here, so everything is small and full of promise.