Pods & Possums
Just to note to let you know that I'll be computer-free on the beach next week. In the meantime I'll leave you with a few recent photos from my garden.
My son noticed this week that our milkweed (Asclepias) pods have started to open. One of his favorite activities is to 'help' release the seeds from the pods and watch them float away in the wind.
The seed pods are a work of art to me.
Unfortunately we didn't see any monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) caterpillars on the milkweed. But there are plenty of Giant Milkweed Bugs (Sephina gundlachi), as you can see in the photo below. While these bugs feed on the plants they don't seem to be doing too much harm so I'm letting them live.
This little opossum (Didelphimorphia) in the photo below is one of the nightly visitors to our back garden. [Sorry about the poor quality of the image. I had to take the photo from inside the house]. While he might look like a rodent of unusual size the opossum is in fact the only species of marsupials in North America. Every night this little guy searches for food under our birdfeeder, then drops by the patio to look for any other delicious morsels. He really liked the pumpkin seeds I left for him that evening.
Hope all of you have a terrific week. I'll be back after my vacation!
"We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings." ~Erma Bombeck
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