While I was offshore for 5 weeks, a Polk weed in the chicken coop had mutated to enormouse size.
Polk weed is toxic to all mamals (birds love the berries though) and it was adjacent to the buck pen, so it had to be removed. It took a considerable effort and six feed bags to get rid of it.
A lot of the Lavender had bloomed while I was gone, but I did help Melisa a little with the harvesting of the Phenomenal Lavender.
The thyme in the Lavender Stone Circle had greened up a lot while I was gone, it’s also gone a little wild and will have to be mowed soon!
Melisa’s foray into bookbinding encouraged me to have a go. This was my second effort, a prototype “manly” journal, with a more plain style and less embellishments than Melisa likes. I do think there may be a market for these in the Online store and at craft fairs.
I was out doing the chores in the moon light, and had a stroll up to the stone circle.
The moon on the night of the stone circle photograph. I continue to be amazed at the low light quality of images from the camera on my phone.
A Monarch butterfly on the flower spike of an Obedience Plant. When we are weeding, we deliberately avoid pulling milk weed plants, even though they are weeds and are prolific on our property, because they are the only plant that the caterpillars of Monarchs will live on. As a result, we’re always happy to see the butterflies.
According to google image search this is a “Red Spotted Purple Butterfly”. Didn’t see any red spots and it doesn’t look very purple, but there you go, It is possible that the red spots are on the underside of the wings.
A set of steps from Terrace One to Terrace Two.
One of the stairs between the terraces had become overgrown with a particularly ‘leggy’ variety of thyme, so we had to take it out and replace it with a lower growing variety.
