outdoor monday
This is my favorite time of year to be in our back field; the wildflowers are amazing! It’s the perfect place for us to gather Queen Anne’s Lace for our many Eastern Black Swallowtail larvae.
Fauna was in a wacky mood throwing seeds on herself (and us). Really now, how cool is her shirt????
Nature treasures
We haven’t looked up the owner of this nest yet, but it is quite pretty with the dried flowers and grasses throughout; it was given to us by my high school librarian, she said it was on her porch light and feared the babies didn’t hatch due to the heat of the light. Fauna is dying to dissect them to see what’s inside! She could do it too, this is the girl that was helping a friend dissect a frog that went belly up when she was 6. She’s my little Beatrix Potter. 
See the little monarch caterpillar on the milkweed leaf below?
Hi baby!
Araina found another new friend, I love her happy expression over a caterpillar! Seriously now, we have over 25 EBS larva. We are picking Queen Anne’s Lace multiple times during the day now to feed them all. I keep suggesting that we release some, but Araina won’t have that! She doesn’t want the birds to have them for a “tasty treat.” She struggles with that part of nature.
Araina’s new friend munching on Queen Anne’s Lace.
Little ladies running wild and free!
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oh my – i think iwill have a go at doing this … i love your blog, your picks and your cool kids – i love that we are both plush team and we both HE …. hugs
xxxxx
i love Fauna’s shirt!
Your back yard ROCKS! Love, love, love Fauna’s shirt!!!
Your girls are so darn cute. Love ariana’s expression in that first picture. You have so many caterpillar friends! Is therre such thing as too many?
Fabulous! Oh how I love, love, love butterflies, especially Monarchs.
the nest and the eggs are to small for a house sparrow. I got to deliver the nest from Barb. It is really a beautiful nest. Very artistic little bird, it knew just where to put the flowers for the best effect. But it is smaller then it looks and the eggs aren’t big enough and the brown spots are to small. It really is about half the size of a sparrows nest, I know it looks bigger in the picture. That shirt looks like she has a giant butterfly on her back. Did it come from cox aboretum. Love the pictures!
Oh my gosh that picture of Fauna’s funny face is too funny! My new desktop. I think the nest is a House Sparrow. Check the size!
aw, shame about the eggs. love the girls’ t-shirts btw!
What a lovely field to be adventuring in……
Love Fauna’s shirt. LIsa, you may enjoy my latest post:
http://fimby.tougas.net/monarchs-in-backyard
25 larvae – that is a full time job! Your girls would get along so well with my children and their jars of bugs and caterpillars. Just love it.
Great photos! Love the shirt. Here’s my post for this week –I linked this post and your hummingbird nest post as well since I didn’t blog at all last week
http://momn3boys.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-thee-to-beach.html
(I’m going to be totally vain and link another outdoor post about a weekend trip we took to Ohio for a car race recently too):
http://momn3boys.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-thee-to-woods-vol-10-lets-go-racing.html
Have a blessed week!
Lovely walk, takes me back to my childhood.
Wonderful Monday outing! Great photos!
I LOVE the t-shirt. Fabulous photos as ever.
Fauna’s shirt is awesome! I too am interested to disect the little eggy’s in that nest
Beautiful photos
What a wonderful place to discover nature! I love that your girls are inquisitive & fearless about the world around them. And I’m jealous of all those monarch caterpillars!
What lovely shots – that monarch butterfly larvae is amazing!
xo Erin
Living “wild and free” – isn’t that the best?
What a rad shirt! Z would likely give an eyetooth to come across a honest-to-goodness Monarch caterpillar.
Here are some thoughts/shots from our time spent savoring the tideflats this past weekend:
http://www.wideopencampus.com/?p=748