Roses and Butterflies

Spent a little time at Hershey Gardens today. The newly renovated butterfly house opened last week and I was anxious to see it. Zoe and I had a magical time. And let me tell you, outside there are more roses than you can shake a stick at (7,500)! Milton Hershey's wife must have loved her roses. I am glad we got a membership as it gets us into Winterthur as well - $75 well spent!

This rose looks fake or else like it should be on a birthday cake!

"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity."

-George Carlin

Feeding time!

Pink roses on a trellis.

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." Alphonse Karr

I wanted to take this owl statue home with me!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Raindrops on Roses

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens;
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens...





Okay, so my cat is not a kitten and my kettle is less than bright! I don't have any warm woolen mittens either but you can knit your own with hand dyed and spun fiber from from one of my blogging buddies at Split Rock Ranch.

I'm really excited about that kettle though. I bought it at a yardsale this weekend for $2.00! I'm going to turn it into a birdhouse. On Sunday we went to Shupps Grove to look around and I found this lady that makes birdhouses out of old tea pots, coffee pots and lunch boxes. Then she mounts them on an old porch railing. She also takes old coffee cans and nails them to the post for planting a flower. I couldn't afford to buy one (although her prices were fairly reasonable) so I decided that I would make my own! I'll post some pictures when I finish it.