brain

"Your brain is like a crazy quilt."
- my husband on our first anniversary

Love this man so much.

in the butterfly garden

After three years, my butterfly garden is finally doing something! My echinacea are blooming and I've finally been able to find some of the specialty plants I have been looking for (joe pye weed, pearly everlasting, asclepias). Now if only I could get some butterflies to come around, we'd be all set.

Butterfly gardening in the Northwest is definitely a far cry from San Diego. Pictured below are gulf frittilary caterpillars and monarchs who took up residence by the scores on passionvine and asclepias tuberosa in my California garden. I miss the butterflies, but I don't miss the water bill. 

just one...

j&r wedding Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA