Happy Butterfly 

We got married in 2013 in a destination wedding for less than $3,000 including airfare and accommodations. It was perfect. We had a...

There are easy ways to replenish your Milkweed.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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)....

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...

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...

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

Some people collect plates, shot glasses, baseball cards or tchotchkes. I collect butterflies. I prefer the living kind (no judgement...

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...

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...

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...