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Praying for Strangers
There are so many ways a book like this could go wrong. It could be super-saccharine. It could be self-righteous, or narcissistic, or overly introspective. It could be pushy. But in telling the…
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Rain
I’m sitting here trying to read and listening to the sound of drenching, roaring, driving rain. This area was flooded extensively in 2006, but today’s rainfall will top that. The Susquehanna has reached…
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Chrysalis Formation
I took some video of a monarch caterpillar’s chrysalis forming today. The caterpillar had spun its silk button and attached itself to the underside of a milkweed leaf — not the ideal spot,…
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This week’s butterflies
Seen this week… This is an older picture — from back in June, but now identified. This is from a few weeks ago. How does a butterfly so torn up continue to fly?…
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Recent audiobooks
Since I’m immersed in a novel that will take me at least another week to finish, I thought I’d share some of the audiobooks that have filled the airwaves in our house lately…
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Hawks and faith
We have several hawks in our neighborhood this year, but next to no redtails. (Very unusual.) In our yard we’ve seen both a juvenile Cooper’s hawk (nabbing a robin) and a mature one…
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Read Aloud Thursday: It’s a Butterfly’s Life
Believe it or not, we’ve been reading The Burgess Bird Book faithfully every day since I posted on it on July 28. We’ve also made a few forays into others works as well,…
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Metamorphoses
We started school yesterday. We layered in a few subjects and “met” the books for the others. Then today, we layered in the rest. I’m struck by how much our concept of “school”…
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Butterfly Farm
The last few weeks have seen several posts here about monarch butterflies. I wrote about our unsuccessful search for monarchs in Milkweed Adventures. Then I followed it up with Monarch Musings, about the…
