One of our dill plants is now home to a black swallowtail caterpillar. We are willing to give up some dill for this wonderful insect.
A nearby tomato plant was home to a tobacco hornworm moth caterpillar. However this pest did not pair well. It was first parasitized (all of the while chrysalis structures), then as it shriveled it became food for a yellowjacket. Glad to see this one gone.
Camilla’s chalk drawing on our driveway.
Susan’s driveway chalk drawing.
Then I pulled a bucket of gravel that I collected in Aurora, North Carolina in the early 1990s. This gravel was used on roads and is full of fossils – shells, corals and sharks teeth dominate.
Camilla and Oscar had a blast searching through several pounds of gravel. They each found 4-5 sharks teeth, a variety of shells and several nice pieces of coral. There’s more for tomorrow.
Until then…
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