Welcome Baby C!

Posted on September 23, 2007

This family was just wonderful! I really enjoyed talking with mom and dad. Big Brother H was a BLAST and just as cute as can be. And then of course, beautiful Baby Girl C. Ah, so sweet! I look forward to showing you the rest!

Helen’s Butterfly

Posted on September 21, 2007

I don’t post a lot about what my daughter Helen is up to, but this I just have to share.

Helen received a bug vacuum and bug habitat for her 4th birthday from her Uncle Steve. Helen loves to collect bugs. A few weeks ago Helen found two monarch caterpillars in our yard and decided to keep them. Every other day we would go out to our hedge and pick fresh milkweed leaves for the caterpillars. It was really neat to watch them eat, and they ate a lot! On September 10th Helen’s largest caterpillar began to turn into a chrysallis. It attached itself to the top of her bug habitat and formed a J.

By the next morning it was inside the chrysallis.

    

Then this morning we woke up to find this.

Around noon the butterfly came out of the chrysallis.

 

Then by about 2pm it was getting ready to fly. It opened and closed it wings for a while. We were finally able to find out if Helen’s butterfly was male or female – it’s a boy! You can tell because males have the two little black dots on the bottom set of wings. Also there are some liquid droplets just below the butterfly in this image – that is from its wings.

 

So it flew around a bit, but really was not very good at flying yet. It also did a lot of resting. Helen held the butterfly on her hand for at least a half an hour.

And then she let the butterfly hang out on the sunflower she helped grow.

Finally she decided to leave it on some flowers.

 

Strange Folk Festival Special

Posted on September 20, 2007

So here is my deal for the Strange Folk Arts Festival…

Book a session with me on Saturday at the festival and you will receive a complimentary 5×5 mini book with images from your session. This is a smaller version of the beautiful coffee table book that I offer. I’ll have the 10×10 on display at the show.

Your session fee is due upon booking.

See you there!

If you can’t watch…Tivo it at 3!

Posted on September 19, 2007

Helen and I are going to be at the window today on Show Me St. Louis on Channel 5. We are joining Autumn the fabulous organizer of the Strange Folk Art Festival to promote this excellent event.

Tomorrow I will be announcing my fabulous Strange Folk special – check back here!

Congratulations M Family!

Posted on September 19, 2007

These 3 cuties are the winners of my September Cover Contest!

Thanks for voting!

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