From Dawn to Dusk... the journal |
This gourd is growing on a fence in our neighborhood. I thought it was a nice touch, so it's one of the pics I took while walking yesterday. As for today, it's practically gone. We went to Mass this morning, then coffee, then dropped Mama off at the Senior Center for Bingo and a luncheon. I went home to bake as a request from my youngest son for a favorite of his to bring to his workplace. |
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Wednesday, August 1, 2001 * baking day... |
Other than that the day has been fairly quiet. The quest to continue organizing the computer room goes on - rather slowly, but it does go on. I worked a bit more on my new calendar archives. And I'm trying to teach myself HTML. I'm slowly getting the gist of it. It's the same old "ah ha!" or "hot damn" - so that's how that works...process. I did get to watch my Gulf Frittilary lay eggs on the Passion Vine yesterday. As many times as I've seen them flitting around, I've never witnessed the actual laying - and seen the individual eggs. Will post a picture here of her doing this, but my camera doesn't have a really good zoom - so it's not perfectly clear. At the moment I have 12 caterpillars in chrysalis and 6 more getting ready. The first of this group went in on the 24th of July, so he/she should be emerging in a few days. |
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The tiny eggs are about the size of a pin head - small, but not too small to see. They develop into tiny black caterpillars that later turn orangey with a dark stripe and black hairs. They feed on the Passion Vine and grow until they are ready to go into chrysalis. Stay in there about 10 days and emerge into a beautiful orange and black butterfly (silver spots underneath the wings)! Hope I didn't bore you. I do enjoy these things, and realize that everyone does not... but since it's my journal... hey ho! Rian |
