🎉🎏🎁🍦HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUDDLE!!! 🎂🍰🍭💖

Garden Spider, just doing its part....

And you know I never post pics of this dude. But...this!

Onions

It's Time...

New Kids in Town: Just-Fledged American Cardinals

Last of the Delphinium

Sunset Over the Ridge

JOY!

Happy Sunday!

Tomatillos

Fee Fie Foe Fum!

Root*Center*Son grew this giant Sunflower.  It's so large it's about 1 1/2 stories high!

Squash

Hot Button Issue 😉

Think Big

Grand Dollhouse

Usually a non-stop talker, she was absolutely speechless and got teary-eyed!

She spent the next morning putting in the furniture.

Thankful for Labor Unions!

Poor Vermont!

We took the grandsons to little Burlington International Airport on Saturday to watch planes take off and land. We didn’t know until we got there that Air Force Two was on the tarmac. Well, parked out on front of the Green Mountain Boys’ hangars.  Apparently the Pence family vacationed at a lake in Hubbardton. I take great satisfaction in knowing that a local chose to express her disdain by kayaking a sign back and forth across the lake.

Welcome September!

Today second grandchild turns 11 and will receive her letter to Hogwarts...!

This is the actual letter!  My dearest friend did this for me...!

Witch and Wizard students report to Hogwarts on September 1st.

Last Lily of the Season ~ Goodbye August!

Yellow Lily

A Hole in the Sky 😉

Red Lily

Delivered!

Ta daaa!  The painting was well received by all!  

Daughter said, "It is your best painting so far!"

Son said, "You nailed it!"

Elder granddaughter (12) said, "It's AWESOME!"

Younger granddaughter (9) took my photo with the painting.

Little Grandson (2) declared, "That's MY house!"

Daughter-in-Law had to work so I emailed her a photo of the painting 

and she responded: "It's beautiful! I wish I had even half your painting ability!"

A very satisfying experience!

More photos HERE (click)

Female and Male Monarch Butterflies

Female                                                           Male

 

Female has thicker stripes

  Male has a black dot on one stripe on each lower wing

Prayers for Hawaii

My friend Jaime Tourin, who lives on Maui, took this photo on Thursday evening.

The phenomenal sunset is brought to you by Hurricane Lane.

This weekend won't be so pretty.  Prayers cherished.

Photo by Jaime Tourin.   Used with permission.

Life Cycle of a Monarch

Just out of the egg!

                             Chomp Chomp Chomp!                           Spinning into a chrysalis!

  

Various chrysalis stages

                                     Just hatched!                                    Getting ready for first flight

 

Bolton Mountain in Vermont

Daughter's House, perfected (double click)

Sorry this photography came out grainy.  But you get the idear.

     2017                                                 2018

 

Daughter's House, in oils (double click to see detail)

Identical Triplet Butterflies!!! All males.

Triplets!

August 8th

August 9th

August 18th

Today could be the day! 🦋🦋🦋