Our garden has been a monarch haven this year. We have been enjoying studying them so much as we pull weeds and tuck more lettuce and spinach in where there's space. Nora especially has been keeping track of where they are (the garden is full of scattered milkweed plants) and how they've grown. At the moment we don't have any caterpillars out there that we know of (though we do have some eggs) but at one point we counted 12 of them. But inside our butterfly "house" is hanging in up in the window with three monarch chrysalises inside.
It seems that new life is bursting from every corner of our little "farm" right now, albeit in very tiny forms. We have three orange cones surrounding the buried turtle eggs outside our back door. Inside there is a bean in a glass jar of soil in our kitchen window, just beginning to sprout (an experiment of Nora's). In the garden the strawberries are producing the best crop of strawberries we have ever had. Aside from all the ones we eat while gardening we are bringing in an overflowing bowl like this and then some everyday.
While I was out working in the yard today I found the tiniest toad, no bigger than my pinky fingernail. Iyla and Nora were so enamored with it. Such a magical time of year.
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