I love spending time on the weekends at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. Although they’re not big, they have a lot there and it changes every week. More and more I realize though that I don’t go there to think, meditate or even contemplate. I find that as I wander around with my camera, my brain is…
The activity in my own backyard continues! It’s been great fun to have such great photographic opportunities right outside my back door. The nice weather is helping too, as I wouldn’t be sitting outside reading if it were still so hot and humid. This time, it was the male eastern black swallowtail butterfly visiting the…
I don’t have to worry about having excess parsley in my garden. I’m fortunate if the caterpillars leave me any once they get going! The first batch of caterpillars earlier this summer died. I try to not fertilize the parsley because I know how sensitive the caterpilllars are, but I must have done so unintentionally.…
Today’s post is a wrap-up of a few more things that have been bothering me and the steps I’m taking to make changes. My original post is here; right click to see parts one, two, and three. Thanks for your encouragement and comments on my earlier posts – it’s really helped give me some perspective and help in letting…
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© 2011 dogear6 llc Whenever the question is asked what I do with the parsley that I grow, my answer is that I grow butterflies! Every year since I’ve had my herb garden containers on the deck, I’ve had butterfly eggs grow into caterpillars which then went into the chrysalis. Eventually it splits and a black swallowtail…
Stem (from Wiktionary) – A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf. See these little cute guys? They’re in my parsley and will eat it down until all that’s left is a stem or two. But if we wait a few more weeks, we get…
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