Random 5 Friday

Just a few random facts and photos from the past week.

1.  Tuesday night I heard that there were supposed to be some great Northern Lights.  So I drove out of town to a dark country road.  I waited and watched until almost 1 o'clock and never saw a thing except a couple of airplanes and the revolving light at the airport.  My grandson in Duluth however saw the Northern Lights and sent me a picture with permission to share it with you.  Thanks Nicholas!

2.  I haven't seen any butterflies all summer, but two have been hanging around the humming bird feeder the last few days.  I was going to take down the feeder as it was attracting lots of flies and wasps but when the butterflies started drinking out of it, I left it for them to enjoy.  I'm not familiar with the names of these two.

3.  I finished my last watercolor class.  We worked on 4 paintings but I haven't finished any of them.  This  calla lily is the closest to being finished and is the one I like best.

4.  I have been baking apples in the microwave.  So fast and easy.  Just core the apple, place in a microwave safe dish, add brown sugar and a little butter in the hole,  add a little water to the dish, cover and bake 4 minutes.  I like to eat mine with cream.

5.  One day last week my dishwasher quite right in the middle of the cycle, leaving a couple of inches of water in the bottom. I had to bail it out as it started to smell before the repair man could get here.  He came today and discovered it was a burned wire so no electricity was getting to it.  I was so glad to hear that's all that was wrong so it was easy and inexpensive to fix.

Linking to Random 5 Friday over at Nancy's A Rural Journal

Thanks for stopping and have a great weekend!

See you next time

Barb

First Garden Flowers and Butterflies

The first flowers to bloom in my garden were the iris.  Here are a few pictures.

 

While I was out in the back yard today I saw hundreds of butterflies in my Japanese Maple Tree. They were just tiny little things, but I did manage to get a couple pictures.  Can anyone tell me if they are Monarchs or American Ladies?  I got two in this shot.

In the shot below I added a couple butterflies from PicMonkey.

I didn't have any of these butterflies in my garden last year...only small yellow or white ones.


I'm joining Tracie at Fishtail Cottage for Cottage Garden Party 2012





I hope you will join me there for some beautiful garden pictures.


As always, thanks for stopping by.  Until next time.

Barb