A digital gift and a natural beauty

If you have "liked" our B&B Facebook page, you may have seen the picture below that I posted today. We received it in an email message from our recent guest, Wendy Murkve, who, along with her husband, Jeff, stayed with us this week while they were kayaking on the Lake.  I haven't asked her how she made it, but I think it's so cool.  And she did it on her iPad while they were driving home!  I saw her out taking pictures, but I never expected to see something like this.  Thanks, Wendy!

So, that was our digital beauty, and now here is a natural beauty.

We have been looking all over our small forest of milkweed plants for signs of a chrysalis from all our caterpillars.  Finally today...in the cucumber patch...attached to a little plastic trellis...a CHRYSALIS!  I just can't believe those little gold dots around the ridge.  It looks like jewelry!  The dewdrops are extra.

Still more caterpillars...of all sizes.

And tonight up in the meadow on one of our trails, we came to the scene below.  It's a patch of milkweed with pink flowers in front and a bigger patch of as-yet-unidentified weeds with white flowers in the back.  It was stunning in the sun but not quite as stunning on the screen.  Maybe we'll try again tomorrow night.