My butterfly garden is thriving right now. All the plants that were planted three years ago have jumped up.
Spot the bunny.
Iris in the small pond.
Potato plants have almost overgrown their sacks.
I finally got all my tomatoes in the ground today. They grew like crazy in the greenhouse and now they're outside in supports and covered with mulch. I left the green wraps on from last year.
A tomato blossom.
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| The robin on the bird bath has been attacking its reflection in the basement glass window for two days; the one in the background collects grass for the nest. |
The KU Medicinal Plant Garden is located north of Lawrence. Today was a planting day--check out the website, http://nativeplants.ku.edu/
Medical anthropology ABD student (but not for long), Steve Corbett.
Ari is windblown.
My daughter Ari and Senior Scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey and garden master, Kelly Kindscher.
Kirsten Bosnak, Manager of the garden, stays busy.
It's always fun to light a match and watch stuff burn, provided it's not in or near your house. Yesterday I lit a few patches of decorative grass in my butterfly garden. The bottom photo shows that just about everything has returned this spring. 
There are plenty of interesting things in the Baldwin Woods besides mushrooms. Here are some of them Josh and I found yesterday. (photos taken with my Blackberry) Above and below: empty turkey eggs.
A luna moth
A large hole in the base of an old oak.
Swallowtail. Below: Arisaema triphyllum also known as Jack-in-the-Pulpit and Indian turnip, aong other names
One of the nice fat morels I found yesterday in the Baldwin Woods. Here are some of the others along the game trails:
Sarcoscypha coccinea
Dacrymyces chrysospermus
Auricularia polytricha
Volvariella pusilla
Possibly some fading Urnula craterium
