Category Archives: Summer Days

Monarch Note Cards

Posted on September 1, 2018 by | Comments Off on Monarch Note Cards

In a short time, our Monarch raising season 2018 will be over and we’ll miss seeing the beauties in the gardens. I’ll miss grabbing my camera to capture them!

Here is a sampling of the Monarch note cards I’ve made by matting my photos and attaching them to 5 x 7 inch note cards. The colors are spectacular!

Inside I stamp a sentiment such as “Happy Birthday!”, “Thinking of you”, “Praying for you”, and “Celebrate Life!”

Each is unique and each honors a special butterfly that we raised this Summer.

monarch note cards JLP

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Posted in Animals & Insects, Botanicals, Butterflies, Butterfly Garden, Danaus Plexippus, Education, Fauna, Floral, Floral Gardening, Garden Blooms, Gardening, Gardens, God's beautiful creation, Landscape, Lifestyle, lifestyle photography, Monarchs, My Gardens, natural light photography, Nature, Nature's Beauty, Perennials, Photo Notecards, Pollinators, Snapshots, Summer Days, Sunlight, Uncategorized

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How My Garden Blooms

Posted on August 30, 2018 by | Comments Off on How My Garden Blooms

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~ Walt Whitman

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~ Cicero

 

 

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Twice the Love!

Posted on August 8, 2018 by | Comments Off on Twice the Love!

Two little blessings sent from above … twice the smiles, twice the LOVE!

Can you tell this family loves all things STL Blues and Disney?

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Welcome to Our World!

Posted on June 28, 2018 by | Comments Off on Welcome to Our World!

Big sister and brother meet their newborn sister and are all smiles and cuddles!

These two are going to be both entertainers and protectors of her. 

They loved on her and counted all her toes and fingers too!

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Posted in A Child's Play, babies, Children, Families, Family Heritage, Family Memories, God's beautiful creation, Infants, Infants & Newborns, Lifestyle, lifestyle photography, Memories, natural light photography, Newborns, Parents, Relationships, Siblings, Summer Days

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Fritillaries

Posted on November 3, 2017 by | Comments Off on Fritillaries

Fritillaries visited our butterfly garden en masse this summer, perhaps due to the southerly winds from Hurricane Harvey.

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My Butterfly Garden

Posted on June 26, 2017 by | Comments Off on My Butterfly Garden

The bumblebees have found my purple coneflowers! I’m still waiting patiently for the Monarchs to arrive. I’ve spotted one Tiger Swallowtail so far.

The “blanket flowers” and butterfly weed and many more plants that attract butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, and yellow finches are just waiting for visitors! I think our cool, wet Spring has affected the pollinators and butterflies so far. So I’ll keep watching!

 

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A Very Hungry Caterpillar

Posted on July 16, 2016 by | Comments Off on A Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Little sister brought her baby brother her favorite book—The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle–and he was completely mesmerized by it, as you can see!

The cocoon and hat were crocheted by Lake Effect Creations. You can find her Etsy shop online at etsy.com

Isn’t he adorable in it? A beautiful creation in God’s world!

Zzzz.

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