One of My Favorite Places

We go here often, both to give and to receive.

Through a Dirty Windshield

Almost home!




I can see my house from here!

Butterflies

The kids and I sent of for some caterpillars a few weeks back, and they arrived in a little jar full of food. We watched them for many days, as they ate and pooped and spun silk, and then they crawled up to the top of the jar and wrapped themselves up in their cocoons. You know what happens next.

Fresh Butterflies


Five of the six caterpillars made it to the butterfly stage. We turned them loose at the little pond/lake by our house.



No images of their release, because I wanted to be fully in the moment instead of behind a lens. Marian held up the first, and it lounged around on her hand for awhile, curling its proboscis in and out, and languidly flew away. Leo lifted his up, and it had a mishap during take-off and landed back on his hand, then flew away successfully. Sophie had barely lifted hers up to freedom when it immediately took off, and the two I released did the same. It was really lovely.

Prairie Sailing

She's catching some wind!

From the Front Porch

I moved to a new home at the beginning of April (not the home mentioned in a previous post), and am now mortgage-free! Woot!

Unfortunately, 2 months after moving here, I broke my ankle. It has been challenging and humbling and painful, but I have still managed to snatch some moments of joy. Had I not moved, I'd never have been able to enjoy the beauty from my front porch that I have here. Even staying on my porch chair, broken ankle elevated, I was able to gaze upon all this beauty:

To the East






To the South


To the West


Straight Down


And Back to the SouthEast





How lucky am I? (Broken ankle and all.)

River Sprites

Good Morning, Sunshine

And good morning, Coot.