It seems like no time at all between when you go out in the woods searching for those first signs of spring starting to appear, and then suddenly everything is lush and green and there is no doubt that

Mourning Cloak butterflies! This was quite the experience. Unfortunately, there were far fewer than anticipated. Why? A couple of Mocking birds feeding their new babies. The birds were so voracious, I

If you saw my earlier post to the Butterfly Day contest then you are aware that last Thursday and Friday we had a caterpillar invasion. Hundreds of these mourning cloak caterpillars were all over the house,

The invasion of the Mourning Cloak! While working in the yard this afternoon re-doing my compost (what a mess, the zip ties were broken and the screening was separating and the whole thing was about to