Hello all--

I just wanted to share with someone who wouldnt think I was too awfully silly...

After months of fighting with sow bugs and slugs and ants and aphids and other bad bugs in trying to get my very first garden off the ground organically I finally saw some proof that good bugs **do** exist.

This morning sitting bright and beautiful on a sunflower that ought to be bursting forth any day now was a pretty little ladybug!!!

Okay so I have been tolerating my spiders since day one- but I used to pretty much kill all spiders until I started this endeavor. It has been an uneasy truce- they promise to stay in their home in my garden and I promise only to squish the when they come in my home.

We also saw a beautiful butterfly the other day floating around the grapevine. (We also had white moths a couple of days before but this was a real butterfly.) We don't see very many butterflies anymore so that was an extra special treat.

Now if only the harvest would start- it has been a fairly cool summer. We have been getting a few days of rain followed by a few days of sunshine all season so far. The grass loves it, but my husband and my tomatoes don't seem to feel quite the same way.

Katrina