9/18 Geo Caching to Pirate Booty & the Beach

 

9/180Delivering a Baby Gift by Boat & Basking in the Fall Sun

 

Community Through Compost

When we offered to pick up smelly, drippy kitchen scraps from our neighbors, we did not anticipate how much it would enrich our lives as well as our gardens. Over the few short weeks that we have been collecting, casual acquaintances have become friends, colleagues, mentors, and teachers, sharing interests far beyond worm products.

 

This morning we enjoyed a spontaneous art lesson while making our weekly pick-ups. One of our members invited us into her studio and showed us how to make prints using laser-printed images and natural citrus cleaning liquid.

Pirates & Faeries Ahoy!

 

Hickory Tussock Moth Larvae (Lophocampa caryae)

Another hazardous caterpillar (http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/inverts/bugpests.html) lurking in the raspberries.

Picking Raspberries at Grandma & Grandpa's

 

Saturday at Longwood Gardens

 

Dangerous Cutie

SADDLEBACK MOTH CATERPILLAR - Limacodidae

Sibine stimulae (Clemens)

The saddleback caterpillar or larva is a striking, venomous, grotesque,

slug-like creature. It is about 1" long and flat on the underside,

but rounded on the top when fully mature. The basic body color

is brown or reddish; its back and sides in the center of the body is a

bright or vivid pea-green patch with an an oval, purplish-brown spot

often edged in white which suggests a saddle, hence its name. The

evenly rounded larva is armed along its sides with groups of spines,

and two larger tubercles or projections are situated at the front and

rear of its body also bear spines. Thoracic legs are very small and

the abdominal prolegs are absent.

Saddleback caterpillars have a wide host range of herbaceous and wood plants including trees, shrubs and even

corn plants and the perennial obedient plant. These stinging caterpillars are less commonly encountered than

other species previously discussed. Touch this caterpillar and you can get a rash and a high fever.

Cookies

 

Colorful Parade

 

Oyster Hugger

 

Compost Collection Day

 

Location Upgrade: Seating & a Water View

 

Labor Day Sites

 

Reece @ the Helm on the Wye (last Sun)

 

Inspired into the World of Commerce (or Uncommerce, as the Case May Be)

By a "new" garbage picked acquisition. They willingly traded this curbside collectable for the cardboard shanty town that has been growing in the living room (remodeling brings access to a lot of cool big boxes for houses, garages, annexes,...).

Bricks on the Move

 

Kallan & the Comics

 

Scaling Dinner

 

Sleeping at Sea

 

Racing Sunfish & Sailboards on the Severn

 

Treasure Hunting by Kayak on the Severn

 

Morning After the Carnival

 

Visit to the Carnival