This visitor seems to like
the blue mistflower blooms.
A Queen stopped in to visit my garden recently. A Queen butterfly, that is. Queen butterflies, Danaus Gilippus, are cousins to the Monarch butterfly. Queens and Monarchs share a striking resemblance, though Queen butterflies have a darker brown ground color. Queens are moderately large butterflies with a wing span of close to three inch...
The summer we married, my husband was in graduate school, and I was employed as a teacher. We took a portion of our savings that summer and purchased a sailboat. We christened our Catalina 22, “Hyacinths For The Soul” after Saadi’s poem. Our "Hyacinths" provided years of pleasure. We continue to cherish the extras of life as food for our souls.
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