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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

The holiday spent visiting with loved ones left me filled with hope for the future and all warm with love for the precious little ones. May God bless you all this coming year and find you eager to pursue your heartfelt desires. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly

My backyard has citrus trees, lemon satsuma and orange, originally planted there not only to provide fresh citrus for my family but also to provide a host plant for the majestic Giant Swallowtail butterfly. Here is a photo of a Giant Swallowtail butterfly that I raised in captivity in my laundry room( in a zippered 14" x 30" columnar container covered in fine mesh), in order to protect it from predators such as wasps and birds when in the larval, caterpillar stage. Each day I misted the column with water and introduced fresh host plant material for the caterpillars to eat. The caterpillars in this photo of the mesh holding cage are the monarchs not giant. You can purchase these small insectaries from Insectlore.com or your local museum, zoo, or botanical gardens gift shops. The beautiful butterflies dance gently on the softest breeze and light ever gently on the tips of the new growth of leaves or on the top of a young leaf to lay their eggs. When the female lights on the ...

Insignificant

God has a history of using the insignificant to accomplish the impossible. And Jesus looking upon them saith, with me it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible . Mark,10:27 Needing peace and contemplation today, I found myself viewing photos from a trip I took to San Francisco and my visit of Muir Woods. Here is a fern shot, reminded me of the fern covered paths I walked in Washington State when I was younger.