calling any one from missouri

[BigBlueHen53]

of course i found it....there are a lot of them here.

Very pretyy! We have the yellow ones and the black ones here.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

There's a mockingbird singing its heart out in the pitch dark. Any time I woke up during the night, he was singing. Every night and every day.....

Mockingbird or whipporwill? It's the whippoorwills I want to strangle.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I was picking kale for a salad and found someone is sharing my kale....
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I just learned about 'massaging' kale for salad, that rubbing the pieces between your fingers (w a bit of salt and olive oil) makes it more tender. It really does! But I don't want to massage any bugs into my salad....
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You can soak it in salt water first.

 

[CrazyChicken Lady]

of course i found it....there are a lot of them here.

Huh...... I've never seen a butterfly like that before

 

[jthornton]

Rolling a giant red oak... I should have had Don video rolling over off of the flat face.

JT

 

[BigBlueHen53]

zebra swallowtail
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@SueT, is this butterfly blue IRL, or does the lighting make it appear so?

 

[SueT]

@SueT, is this butterfly blue IRL, or does the lighting make it appear so?

no there's no blue in those. It's just my point and shoot camera and the light at that time of day.....They are black and white.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Hey Sue, didn’t you tell us once that you have looked for paw paws on your place but didn’t find them? ... I might be thinking of someone else...

In any case I read that zebra swallowtails use pawpaw trees exclusively as the host tree for their caterpillars... so if you have lots of zebra flutterflies you must have some pawpaws hiding around there somewhere

 

[BigBlueHen53]

no there's no blue in those. It's just my point and shoot camera and the light at that time of day.....They are black and white.

Well you sure got a pretty shot of a lovely creature!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

A few of the lilies in our chicken run. A few years back, an elderly gentleman in our church who'd spent a lifetime breeding lilies invited us to dig up a truckload of bulbs from his garden and bring them to our place, as he was getting to old to care for them all. We didn't want to be greedy but we took several. He has since passed away and all his work has been dug up, plowed over and changed hands. We now wish we had taken many more! All we can do is keep them alive and the chickens certainly help with that, fertilizing and cultivating diligently! Notice that some of the blossoms have ruffles.