Photo collection of Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) butterflies, eggs, and caterpillars on Zebra Hollyhock (Malva sylvestris). Note how tiny the caterpillars are, at about 24 hours old, compared to the adult.
Entries Tagged as 'Dynamic Duo'
Butterfly Pictures
February 27th, 2010 by Matt · 1 Comment
Tags: Dynamic Duo · Learn, Baby, Learn
Sail away, sail away, sail away
February 21st, 2010 by Matt · 1 Comment
This week, like so many men before him, David decided that he needed a boat.
It was all part of a bigger plan. He wanted some fish in an aquarium, and what better way to catch a few than from a boat? He also wanted some fish for dinner, which sounded like a much [...]
Tags: Dynamic Duo
Sky Loom Weavers
February 14th, 2010 by J.
Saturday we took a trip to Sky Loom Weavers. I’ve already had to promise Carmen we’ll visit again.
(Good Lizabeth took the pictures and shared them with us.)
Here are two of the four mohair goats. I couldn’t resist pointing out to C&D that they lived in a very big pen, much bigger than our living room.
I [...]
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Racket
January 30th, 2010 by J.
I don’t remember why or how it got there, but we’ve had a pot in the living room this week.
Carmen sits in it. David suggests we can use it to keep pet fish. And we can use it to make a terrific racket.
A racket. Maybe that’s why I brought it out. Last week David was [...]
Tags: Dynamic Duo · Violin
Happy Birthday
January 24th, 2010 by J.
New cowboy boots.
Pinata refresher with Matt as the demo. Just like last year, C&D refused to wear a bandana. Why make it harder?
And it was hard. My mom picked up the pinata at the grocery. The post-mortem revealed it was built like an octagonal cardboard box with a cardboard cross beam in the middle of [...]
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Violin Class
January 21st, 2010 by Matt
After a video starts playing, the lower-right corner has a button to make it full screen.
Tags: Dynamic Duo · Violin
Wrong answer
January 21st, 2010 by J.
C&D love the book Pelle’s New Suit. In the story Pelle discovers that his clothes have gotten too small. He shears his sheep and then exchanges favors with his family and neighbors to get the wool cleaned, carded, dyed, woven, and finally sewn into a new suit. The story serves as a nice example of [...]
Tags: Domesticity · Dynamic Duo · See Joyce Go
