It is a beautiful, warm, low 80 F (28 C), morning in southwest Louisiana. It has been perfect for Geralyn and I to sit on our patio and enjoy the flowers, the butterflies, and the birds. We actually have a wood thrush nesting in our holly hedges but I am reluctant to take a picture of the nest. It also appears that our cardinals are in the process of building a nest nearby. A few minutes ago we had a visit from one of our hummingbirds and I was able to snap a quick picture and video. My front lawn needs cutting so I will start doing that chore soon before the temperature (and humidity) climb to a projected high of 90 F (32 C). After today rain is forecast locally for several days so today must be lawn day!!
It is a beautiful day in southwest Louisiana so John and I had breakfast on the patio so that we could enjoy the view. While we were relaxing, a male monarch butterfly was enjoying sipping nectar from our flowers. We think, possibly, that it was the male we released a few days ago. It is the only monarch butterfly that we've seen in our yard so we thought he was in search of a female.
This morning, Ger and I found our last butterfly had eclosed. We left the male butterfly in the mesh enclosure for about four hours before releasing him. He was very energetic and first flew to our holly hedges before flying off to rest high in my neighbor's tree. It was exciting to have three caterpillars emerge at the end of their metamorphosis into three healthy butterflies. We released one female and two males.
Hello my friend & hope all is well . Had a strong storm come in last night with a light show,sound effects with 2 1/2 in. rain . Clearing today but more rain for all of next week . hope it gets dry enough to cut the yard .Tornado touched down about 30 miles N.W. of us causing some damage & flooding around the area.Sure hope you miss any bad stuff.Enjoy your weekend & take care....George
I hope your week has been kind to you while counting your blessings. This week went by fast doing this and that and that and this . We will have a few rain showers for the next several days so the grass will become greener and start to grow . I really do like that the smell of that first cut of grass along with spring showers. Do have a wonderful day and I will do the same. Smiles Gloria
Our second Monarch butterfly eclosed this morning. We I managed to take pictures and videos of this event. Our male butterfly was not in a hurry to leave our yard and relaxed on our ligustrum tree. Shortly after its release, we had an unexpected rain shower and we were worried about the butterfly's survival during this unexpected rain shower. The sun is now shining and my little butterfly came out of hiding and just flew to our orange tree and is safe and healthy! Maybe it will find the female we released a few days ago.
hello, hope things are going well for you, it's been raining here for the last 3 days...we really did need rain, hard to beleive considering all the snow we got this winter. wishing you a nice day, and if you have some spare sunshine send it my way...hugs
Happy May day & here we go to another month. I guess everyone is getting nice warm weather now. Mid to high 80's here with everything blooming beautiful & even getting humming birds coming in. Enjoy the rest of the week my friend...............George
Hi Sis Connie, hope Jevelle got your card and the money. would be nice to hear wouldn't it? hope you have a good rest of the week. Take care. hugs, Sis Moe
HI CONNIE YES I LOVED TO WATCH EWTN LIVE AND IT WAS A VERY SAD DAY WHEN MOTHER ANGELICA PASSED AWAY I LEARNED A LOT FROM HER AND SHE HELPED ME AS WELL. SO SORRY FOR THE PASSING OF YOUR SISTER SHE WAS REALLY BLESSED TO WORK EWTN.
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MY FRIEND I WISH FOR YOU JOY, PEACE, AND HAPPY SMILES FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY UPPER MAINE IS HAVING A SUNNY BEAUTIFUL DAY. LOVE N HUGS WITH MANY BLESSINGS MARGE
good morning, i've been really busy outside lately got it almost done, and ready to plant flowers..hope your week-end was nice and wishing you a lovely start to this new week...hugs
