Magical Morning Moments

This morning I hoped to do a bit of gardening before the heat set in, so I took Emma out on a leash very early. Heaven forbid that she should see a squirrel and take off barking and waking up the entire neighborhood, hence, the leash :-)  I was about to bring her into the house when I glanced down and saw a beautiful monarch butterfly resting in the grass. After taking Emma inside, out I came with my camera. It was still cool, so the butterfly was content to stay still while I crawled around shooting it from every angle. (I just hoped my neighbors wouldn't look out their window and think "she's fallen and can't get up." Fortunately, in spite of my foot issue, I'm still pretty agile. :-)

 

The wings in this image are not as sharp as I would have like, but I was trying to get a face to face portrait. Please click on this or any other image for a larger view; you will be amazed at how large its eyes are.

 

 

On Tuesday, I went to lunch with friends and we discussed this app. Later, Kathy sent out this image.

 

 

Laurel sent this cartoon. Looks like a perfectly swell party to me!!!

Finally, here's a photo taken last week of the progress being made on construction of our new library.

I have done a bit of quilting this week, but I'll save that for my next post.

Farmland Fun

     Early yesterday morning I was able to get this closeup of a Monarch butterfly in my garden. Each time that I got close it would fly off, but I knew that if I waited patiently, the butterfly would return to the same spot, and it did.
     Then it was off to Davis Farmland in Clinton, MA, with seven of my favorite little ones and their moms, my cousins. Davis Farmland has baby animals, farm equipment to climb on, a playground, pedal cars, a sprinkler park, and more. Honestly, what more could a child want? The best part beside all of their smiling, happy faces? I got to spend time with the newest member of the family who is just three months old. What an absolutely beautiful baby he is!

     Today was a full day of gardening. Here's Emma checking out the rose that I planted. The buds are yellow, but they open as a white flower. I'm happy that I am finally making some progress in my gardens, but there is still so much more to do.