It may have been a wet and dreary day, but ...

It may have been a wet and dreary day, but ...

Hello World - Praying Mantis Style That Is!

When hatching they crawl from between the tiny flaps in the egg case and hang 
from silk threads about 2" below the case. You can see 3 of them here crawling 
out from under the flaps in this pic
.

You can see the silk threads in this pic too

There's 4 or 5 poking out of the flaps - they're worm like as they emerge.

They hang until they dry out and then they either fall to the ground or crawl up 
and on to the plants around them. I only saw 4 or 5 fall to the ground. The rest 
clambered up.

This was the last of the bunch. They hung out like this till they were dry 

and then they too climbed back up the silk threads and onto the plants.

Babies Babies Everywhere!

A recently hatched praying mantis egg! 

It hatched on Wednesday, May 6th, 2010!

Practice

Little 'B'

Race Ya Momma!

Whatcha looking at little one?

 
Are you my mother?

Drop!

If only it were snow!!

We Had A Little Snow!

Looking out my front window - It was BEAUTIFUL out there!!

A feeding frenzy!!

I'd shoveled once already!

It was truly MAGICAL :)

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Brown Bear What Do You See is a children's book)

I see a moose looking at me.

What do you see? I see a koala looking at me.

Brown Bear, Brown Brown what do you see?  
I see the Nativity with an angel in the window watching over me.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear ... I see a shaggy dog with with a newspaper looking away from me.

What do I see? I see a dragon sticking his tongue out at me.

It's the Snuffleupagus 

with a sleeping bunny just above his snout

Is that a camel I see??

Who'd a thought there'd be a boat house in the middle of Valley Forge Park?! Looks like canoes stored for the winter!

Brrrrrr, It's COLD Out There!!

Baby, It's Cold Outside!!!