The Monarchs are back!

Yes, the Monarchs are back.  Actually, we've seen a Monarch butterfly flying around here and there already, but today I saw one on the blooming milkweeds, so I'm counting that as the start of the season!

And if you look real close to the right of the butterfly, you can see the other reason I'm counting this as the start of the Monarch season...see the caterpillar on the chewing on the leaf?

Here it is a little closer...

And closer still but the butterfly flew away.  Now we'll watch for the appearance of the chrysalis.   I'll have to look up the Monarch Watch website so we can do our reporting.

Today was Saturday Market day again, and today we brought some actual produce--onions--white & red, lettuce, and herbs--summer savory, basil, two kinds of thyme, and oregano.  And we still had some of our "fleas" from the flea market last week.  And best of all, we got rid of several of those "fleas" that have been taking up space in our lives.  Yes!  One of the vendors had beets and carrots already.  He must have started them in heated garden beds!  And now they say it's going to get unseasonably cold again, just when we were starting to make some forward garden progress!