After sowing a mix of wildflower seeds in the spring, the dominant grower was this huge plant bearing red flowers. Mexican sunflower. The bees and butterflies loved them.
So much so that when the season became too late to raise monarchs from eggs, we took to catching wild ones that stopped to visit our sunflowers. Here is Caroline the huntress in hiding.
It's rare to see brightly festooned insects here in the Northeast, but this candy-striped leafhopper is a native.
Sadly I have no pests to blame for my pathetic peanut crop. Left: Virginia peanuts. Right: Dave's Lexington peanuts. And that is all of them. Two plants worth.
This was another record-breaking giant pumpkin for the Topsfield Fair
Other prize-winning vegetables were less impressive, like these 1st prize green beans. My beans looked better than that.
Aunt Claire delivered on prizes for completing her Yellowstone/Teton quest
Erin's catty drawing
One of Erin's classmates set up a challenge to, by the end of the school year, learn all the world capitals for countries with more than 1 million inhabitants
Yes, we miss Dansa Pausa from Boda Borg
Its replacement Sphinx is not as much fun
Free caricatures, courtesy of East Cambridge Savings Bank
Columbus Day was perfect for hiking and we scaled Mount Kearsarge
The name One Too Many comes from the resemblance to bloodshot eyeballs
It is great fun having Wilson Farm so close to our home
Friends Chinda and Mike are taking 1-2 years off to travel the US and the world. We were a pit stop in their US tour and it was great to spend time with them. Their journey is chronicled at: travelknitdance.com
You can see why we took to lying in wait to try to capture them
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