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sometimes I just can't help myself

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley 

Happy Cinco de Mayo, let me be the first!  I don't think it will matter much in the big scheme of things around here, but it's nice to have a name for a day, eh?  #1 Order of Business is any information you can give me about this lovely little lady a friend discovered yesterday in a trunk in Vermont.  

I stuck her picture on the antique quilt Facebook list and got reprimanded so I'm trying a different tact today.  She has a beautiful face that looks to be painted but I don't know on what.  Does she look familiar, is there anything you can tell me?  Do you want to talk to the 'finder'?  Let's help this little lady find a home!

Yesterday was a great day, no pressing duties or commitments so I sat at the dining table and worked out floor plans on the prints I made-  I'm cutting up little squares to scale so TY can see furniture in his head better, hopefully it will stop him whining about WHY we're doing this!

obsessive?  You betcha.

But knowing the size of the rugs I've used helps us get a bit of perspective on how things will fit.  We are trying hard to not leave too many gaps of new furniture and instead trying to use what we already have.  I already see we'll need lamps.  The verdict is still out as to whether we'll sell the condo, and if we do I'll have lots more furniture to deal with than I can use.  

I also visited Home Depot yesterday afternoon and want to recommend 3 PM and after on a Sunday as a time you can get around and get help-  everybody is bored enough to actually WANT to help.  My mission was to repot all my orchids so I needed bark and moss and stakes-  all the usual.  I am fully outfitted now, even put the moss in a bucket to soak so today I'll be doing that-  I only have ten pots so I may have to go back.  I hate playing in dirt, but the poor old orchids I keep under my bushes in the courtyard and ignore need some attention-  and cleaning up!  Didja know there is at least one species of orchid native to every state in the US?  And 25,000 species are known throughout the world.  Thi=rd fact-  because they thrive on benign neglect, I find I can grow them successfully!  

I've really been enjoying my neighbor's butterflies this season,  He had me paint a butterfly house for him that he placed where I can see it out my window and then he re-landscaped his side yard to attract them.  Now you can barely walk out the door without a butterfly alongside and it's wonderful to see how successful he's been.  I want the same thing in our new yard so have to get a list of the plants he put in because they work perfectly! 

SOOOoooooOOO, today I have some butterflies for ya!

This is a stunning watercolor portrait- Mark Dion, “Humboldt Cabinet” (detail) (2013), pencil and watercolor on paper, stamp (courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery)

In the realm of genetic anomalies found in living organisms perhaps none is more visually striking than bilateral gynandromorphism, a condition where an animal or insect contains both male and female characteristics, evenly split, right down the middle. While cases have been reported in lobsters, crabs and even in birds, it seems butterflies and moths lucked out with the visual splendor of having both male and female wings as a result of the anomaly. For those interested in the science...  

‘The Book of Life’ by David Kracov 

and with that, it's time to get busy-  hey, it's going to be light soon!