kitchenMage's Herb Garden

Fluttering by the garden

Spotted flitting between the anise hyssop and this aptly named butterfly bush in the herb garden the other day, this beauty is a Red Admirable (or Red Admiral if you must be modern). They are common as the nettles upon which they nectar but I still love those marbled-looking underwings and bright blue spots. According to Robert Pyle's book, The Butterflies of Cascadia, they also like rotting apples, which means it is probably good that the apple tree has a guardian.

One more bit of pretty after the jump...

whb: one last flower before fall

Weekend Herb Blogging
What started as a whimsical answer to weekend cat blogging is now a weekly excuse to play in the herb garden. Oh gee, how awful - not the herb garden! Kalyn has nurtured little whb, and now it's all grown up, with its very own set of rules, and Kalyn lets it escape the confines of her kitchen every other week to be guest hosted somewhere on the tubes of the 'net.
Weekend herb blogging is hosted by Ulrike of Kuchenlatein this week, so get yourself over there to check out the roundup.

Some days you think you have it all together and know exactly what to expect from life, and your herb garden.

Then you turn around and those boxes the cat is sleeping on take on a new meaning...and the sage plant defies the fall chill to give me one last benedictory flower.

I am taking this as a good sign, which I could use right about now.  ...and yes this is cryptic, more soon.