Caterpillars!

Caterpillars now,

Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Beauties soon to be

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xoabb

Shameless family exploitation once again.

Above is my bro's photo.

P. S.  My bro replied:
"One of the resulting butterflies is here. And another -- this one went to chrysalis form in the fall. We figured it was dead. Roger insisted it wasn't and kept it in his room. One March morning, he awoke to a butterfly crawling on his bed!" There's one more photo here.
Do click on the highlighted links - his photos are wonderful!

Ahhhhhhhh....

We've spent the last two days purging our garage and shed. After lots of vacuuming, cleaning, and organizing, along with five trips to the dump, four trips to Goodwill and three trips to various folk's home with their stuff we somehow had, we have a garage and shed that's positively gleaming! Now on to the basement. (sigh)

The above photo has nothing to do with anything. It's from my mom and gorgeous, at least to me.  As she wrote:  "It's hard to get the tomatoes and cukes picked when there's so much needing to be photographed. One drop of dew looked like amber, and how about the brilliant cut diamonds to the side?"  Since I've lost the majority of my photos, every so often I'll be stealing I'll be borrowing photos from my photography-minded family.  Yep, shameless family exploitation at it's best! Oh, I'm sure they won't mind!

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xoabb