Not so Squished
From Oaxaca to Michoacán. Our hotel is in the town of Zitácuaro This is the area we are focusing on within Michoacán. As you can see the butterfly reserves straddle the State of Mexico and Michoacán. The pink line is the border between Michoacán and State of Mexico.Our hotel, Rancho San Cayetano is on the Michoacán side. ...
¡Hola, buen día! It feels like it's been a long time since my last trip, possibly because last year my two adventures took place in English-speaking USA (Moab and Vermont). Perhaps this is a contributing factor for being excited to relive my latest trip in written form, but it's much more than that. This ...
I'm not sure what I've gotten myself into. Prior to our holiday, we went to a demo day at Durham Forest. Hubs wanted to check it out for mountain bikes for me, and I wanted to check it out to see what the fuss was about. Hubs had purchased a mountain bike, but it wasn't ...
Holy jumpin’ is it hot in Toronto! I can’t remember the last time it was this hot. Coming from Iceland, this weather is vastly different though bits of it are a welcome change. We returned to a house that felt like a mini-bake oven. As soon as I climbed the stairs…
On a walk down Roncy with a friend, I had discovered this jem of a flower shop called Willem & Jools. I had purchased a beautiful calathea (prayer plant). So when hubs and I were invited to a housewarming, I immediately thought of this shop. Unfortunately they no longer carried the calathea, but I found ...
An awesome camper brought in a cutting of milkweed last week, and on it were three monarch butterfly caterpillars, busily munching on the leaves. The camper also brought in a chrysalis, which was really cool. I have never seen one before, nor have I ever witnessed the emergence of a butterfly from the chrysalis. The ...
Isn't this wild?! The campers found this in the park and I've learned that this beautiful caterpillar is going to turn into a stunning cecropia moth, North America's largest native moth. Wingspan can reach over six inches! When I first saw it, I was freaked out in a fascinated way. My boss told me she's seen ...
It's almost mid-August, and the days are noticeably getting shorter. Yes, it's kind of depressing. We've had some short stretches of hot days, but compared to last summer, it hasn't been a hot summer. It's definitely been a much wetter summer than last year. Combine this with me starting my seeding a month later than ...
Unlike bees, I am terribly afraid of wasps. Don't you agree that they have a very menacing look, like they are deliberately out to taunt and terrify? That's what I see. Wasps keep me out of my own garden, and I notice them in the mid-late afternoons when the sun is out and my garden ...
My no longer fruit producing Alpine strawberry plant remains on the potting table. The leaves have been yellowing, so I fertilized it a few weeks ago, and the leaf colour is slowly improving. What remained a big mystery for many weeks, maybe even over a month, has been the hole-punched leaves. I had posted a ...