Beauty. Mother Nature knows how to sculpt, paint, and hang in just the right place manifestations of amazing beauty.

For a certain few weeks, Nature sings its beauty. Flowers are in full regalia, vegetable plants are producing and flowering to produce more, and the buzz of wings is a constant whir-melody.

My garden has a wildness to it, a randomness. I love that because around any corner there is something to behold or eat or both. Yes, there are rows of tomatoes or corn but among them are beans, kale, parsley, basil or flowers. Some people call it polyculture; seems to simply be how Mother Nature does it.

Monarch caterpillars are eating their way through a first-year milkweed plant. Looking at the milkweed patch, the mature flowering plants (2 yr or more) have no action. Maybe that’s the monarch way: young plants for eggs and subsequent baby food.

As a visiting friend and I were walking the garden, look what we found. This “tomato horn worm” was three times the size of the first one a month ago. In the morning as she and I were clipping produce for her to go home with, we couldn’t find it. Remember: these beings transfigure into Humming Bird Moths. In order to do that they drop from the plant and borrow into the soil to pupate. The amazing Moth emerges. The garden has many HBMoths. Pollinators par excellence.