Life with the monarch caterpillars
Happy monarch caterpillar munching on the base of a milkweed leaf Today three more monarch caterpillars developed in chrysalides. Now we...
Migrating geese
Late yesterday afternoon I heard bird calls nearby. I looked up at the sky to see this. A flock of Canadian geese flying by. I thought...
Grasshopper on the apricot cosmos
The apricot cosmos plant is now in bloom. I thought it never would. All that fern-like foliage that I regularly watered, and no sign of...
Still blooming in the front yard
The California native plants are definitely the survivors in our front yard. After several heat waves, and for this time of year, most of...
Anna's hummingbird discovers the foxglove
The "Polkadot Pippa" foxglove Digitalis hybrid that I planted from a seedling this year in late spring is starting to bloom. It still is...
And even more monarch caterpillars!
So I was just checking the second narrow leaf milkweed plant on the patio, and look what I discovered. More monarch caterpillars! This is...
Blue thimble plant is still blooming
Although much of it is drying up, as are most of our native annuals in the garden, one of the blue thimble plants gilia capitata, is...
The Flame skimmer is back
The female Flame skimmer Libellula saturata is back! Here she is perched on a dried up stalk of an orange sulphur Klondike cosmos plant...
mama monarch butterfly?
There is a beautiful monarch butterfly that often visits the patio and front yard. Here she is feeding on nectar in a California Delta...
"Bee Swell" website
Bee Swell http://beeswell.org/ is a wonderful website that promotes awareness of problems our pollinators are facing today. They provide...
