Do You Celebrate Halloween?

A brown-haired woman wearing a silver brimmed black wizard hat with silver crescent moons and stars looks at the camera, red brick wall in the background.

Halloween is a popular day in southeast Michigan, and a special day not only for children and Halloween parties.

Several adult friends told me about attending local Halloween events this year, including haunted forests, zombie paintball, haunted corn maze, and haunted houses.

Me, I’m into

  • Halloween stories
  • Checking out scary trees
  • Spooky music like Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain (the opening is amazing!)
  • Dressing up to give out treats on Halloween night.
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Photo of the Week: An Unexpected Fall Visitor

Large Italian flat parsley plant in a pot with a black caterpillar with lengthwise rows of yellow markings with a white spot in the middle of its body foraging on one of the green leaves.

As I was doing my fall cleanup in the garden, I was surprised to find an unexpected fall visitor: an early stage Black swallowtail caterpillar munching on an Italian flat parsley leaf.

I knew parsley, along with dill, are host plants for Black swallowtail butterflies. But I hadn’t seen any swallowtail caterpillars on my dill or parsley plants all year.

Until this week.

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