Month: September 2018
My Gardens This Fall
For the first time ever this year I planted flowering Kale. I used it both in my home gardens as well as the gardens at school. It is so colorful with the contrasts of green, pink, and purple that I feel it lends a great deal to the garden border. Offering the varying colors on…
Silent Sunday: Scenes from Creeping on a Hummingbird
Poetry Friday: Gray September Sleepiness
Curled up on the couch with a favorite book in hand, covered by a cozy, warm, soft blanket in the drabbest green you ever saw, sleepiness invades my morning. Outside it is gray, the maple leaves still green but now with a musty tone signalling the soon to be revealed colors from under the silvery…
Little Known Fact Series #2: The Green Flash
Some months ago I started on occasional series called Little Known Facts. It might not be a series yet, because there has been one, and only one, post to it. It was back in July and called, Little Known Fact Series #1: The Wisconsin Connection to the Niagara Escarpment. My aim with this series is…
Reaching out – Out Reach: The Last Two Weeks.
It is the height of the monarch migration season. By all reports, it has been a great year to be involved in the conservation of this species. Summer numbers are up and my own experience supports that observation. As school restarts, it is a busy time for me as a non-formal educator. In the last…
A Morning Walk
We are having another summer like day this morning in the midwest. Honestly, with temperatures in the upper 80’s in mid-September, I am more than ready to have it cool down, at least a little bit. Since I’ve not been good about my quest for regular exercise, I contemplated going to the YMCA. But, it…
Silent Sunday: Butterflies of Summer 2018
It’s Apple Harvest Time!
September Evenings Last night my husband and I picked apples. We didn’t go anywhere, just our front yard! Mainly, we have Cortland’s this year. We have enough to make pies and cider. Tomorrow, we’ll host a group of friends for what is becoming an annual cider making party. Did you know it takes one five…
Not sure about this bandwagon effect: Raising Monarchs has turned into a One Upmanship, not a Conservation Effort.
“I raised 300.” (unnamed, 2018) “I belong to a Facebook group in Wisconsin that has raised and released over 16,000 Monarchs this season.” (unnamed, 2018) “I hope to reach 1,000 next year.” (unnamed, 2018) What is going on? These are statements of citizens in the U.S. and Canada who have raised monarch butterflies this summer…