I’ve been walking through milkweed patches, flipping over leaves, looking for chew marks, searching for eggs. So far, nada…no Monarch caterpillars…. But, the milkweed is looking good in our area and we’re slowly getting reports of sightings of Monarchs (although not really in Loudoun yet). A few Monarch caterpillars (5) have been found in the […]

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. – James Russell Lowell

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the seemingly dead feeling of winter. Something awaits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. – Andrew Wyeth

What good is a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. – Emerson

To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. – William Blake

With all things and in all things, we are relatives. – Sioux Proverb

To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky. – Percy Bysshe Shelley