Baby A attended his first family campout this weekend. Temperatures were a lot chillier than he was used to.
Brother S had several camping requirements that he was working on for cub scouts. Hubby and the older kids slept outside in the tent.
Brother M is practicing his nature photography. He took this Mid-Atlantic Leopard frog photo with my phone.
On Saturday afternoon I was sitting down at the dining room table enjoying the warm fall breezes and gazing out the window. I saw a fat fuzzy caterpillar crawling up the brick window casing. Then I saw a large praying mantis moving across the window screen. And then "Pow!" suddenly the mantis was holding the caterpillar in its pincers and slurping it up. I yelled for the kids to come. Too bad they missed the attack sequence, but at least they were able to watch the feast up close through the window screen.
I may have mentioned my love of comfrey a few times already on this blog (ahem). Here is another example of its usefulness. This is not really a "before" picture, but these are the ones I planted this weekend.
And this is how nice they look after a month or so. The comfrey acts as a natural weed suppressant and mulch. 
They are planted in a triangle shape around my Echinacea bed.
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