the petals are showing

The first red sunflower of the year, is yellow! hee hee, good one mother nature :}

Sunflowers!

Up close and personal :}
picture by Karen's Quilts

Cheer Leading for Dr Laura

http://www.drlaura.com/

Dr Laura has been a wonderful radio talk show host, answering tough questions for people for many years. She is an inspiration on doing the right thing, especially when its tough. She has many great books that tell of conversations and stories of people working out their problems. Especially when the good of children are involved, unless dangerous or destructive parents are part of the equation. She roots for winners and warriors not weenies. Stay strong.

Don't plant fennel near...

Don't plant fennel near dill, carrot or coriander (cilantro), risk of cross pollination which would reduce seed count. Also the dill and fennel will start tasting like each other.
/ that being said I just moved some fennel to the front yard where there is also dill. so now I'm moving all the dill to the back yard, yay!

Ceramics!

First day of ceramics class today! Making a yogurt bowl, for making yogurt in :}
hand built and made with love.
Lara, Karma
Shanti! peaceful days for all

Woodlouse Spiders eat woodlouse (rolly pollies)

(image from wikipedia)

I found a woodlouse spider today! It has a red body, orange legs and a gray thorax. I thought it was a possible threat so I captured it and found out what is was. It turns out that woodlouse spiders eat woodlouse, more commonly known as rolly-pollies. There are a lot of wood.louses in the front yard that I have found when moving a plant pot. They would scurry from underneath.

Thanks for keeping the population undercontrol woodlouse spider.
I'll be letting you go now.

Lara,Karma

Worked in the Orchard :D

Worked in a fruit tree orchard today, very cool.