Happy Butterfly 

The garden is our classroom for life truths.

What do we do about aphids on our Milkweed?

With COVID-19 still lurking about, many of us are staying close to home these days. Time in the garden is soothing, refreshing and distracting. So, I thought...

We are still in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and everyone has an opinion on what to do next. It's great to hear many sides on a topic before making a ...

Considering a screened-in butterfly house?

It is spring and our butterfly gardens are coming alive. My landscape includes host plants for dozens of local species (that is nerd speak indicating that I ...

What a unique Holy Week this is. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world is opting to social distance and shelter in place for Easter. Around the...

These days are strange. Coronavirus is making its way around the globe and we are finding ourselves unsure at best and terrified at worst. How will this play...

I've abandoned certainty for a gentle, loving peace.

In my heart I'm a vegan, in practice a vegetarian, and in reality more of a flexitarian (primarily vegetarian but meat/fish on occasion). My husband is kind ...

Freedom, Focus and Daily Decisions.

Attention theology geeks, this is heady and controversial, but it is heavy on my heart. I do not aim to offend, just to be honest. I love the Catholic church...

My first 40 years on earth did not exemplify serenity. I intend to change that for the next 40. My personality is assertive. Many people are withdrawn or at ...

When I first began my south Florida butterfly garden, I included a plant called a pipevine to attract a specific black and yellow swallowtail. There are seve...

Some people collect plates, shot glasses, baseball cards or tchotchkes. I collect butterflies. I prefer the living kind (no judgement here, but I don't pin m...

I decided in my early twenties that I didn't want to work full-time for someone else until I was in my sixties. I wanted my time to be my own, not on loan to...

This is a moth larva/caterpillar. I only know this through experience. In this picture it is eating my Desert Rose, but it is commonly called the "oleander c...

We swim in a consumer culture like fish who don't know they are in water. The devious appeal of media and advertisements combined with our perception of our...

This is the story of how we quit our jobs and do what we love, and there's a Tiny House.

You know butterflies drink from flowers. But, did you know they drink from lots of other stuff too? Some butterflies drink from rotting fruit, particularly r...