General Discussion

so it's not a total loss, but I was looking at an authentic Garden of Eden for Monarch caterpillars, and now I am not.

My woods are full of "Prickly ash" aka "Toothache Trees". The zebra swallow tail butterflies really do well in that.

Maybe I shouldn't complain, but I've got a soft spot for Monarchs. It's sad to see the yesterday's clustered pink flower heads now nodding over as they die

Many of my neighbors eye my 70-ish acre place with envy, I"m under constant mailing pressure from folks who want to make my place more "useful" as they see it. Many of them want to plant35 acres of solar array!.Yikes!! I call them Buzzards when my partners wondes why I shred the letters, and I mostly otherwise quietly resent them for not being able to leave me in peace to do what I choose with my little scap of wet woodlands.