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beauty, friendship, novels, kitchen and garden. A no-politics zone. We're blue dots.🕊️✌️☮️🎶

Dozens of Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillars are in the Rue. 🦋 Called Peganon in the Bible, it was thought ✨ to repel witches and Catholics dipped 'The Herb of Grace' in holy water to sprinkle on parishioners.🙏 At one time a common culinary herb, today it's used in Ethiopian coffee.☕

A tiny butterfly caterpillar rests in a small leaf. My finger/hand for size contrast.A Rue plant has grey leaves and yellow flowers.

"I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 🌜😎🌛

Looking up from beneath  a conifer tree.

We were on the river trail at 8 am while it was still cool. 👭💚🪟 We talk and stroll and sit on every bench along the way, just to enjoy the scenery. 🩵 Beautiful 💙

A river scene with scrub trees on both sides of the water. A dirt path on the right. Blue sky.