Create interest and atmosphere this year in your garden! Perfect for accenting decking, pathways, lawns and borders at night. Color changing LED makes the flying animals coming to life in the
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Hummingbird, Butterfly & Dragonfly Solar Garden Stake Lights, 3 in a Set.
Attitudes Toward Butterflies in Past Eras? Authentic Butterfly Decor
Many of us like to include butterfly motifs in our home decor. Some hang framed butterflies on the walls. Others use butterfly patterned fabrics or needlework. Those things make our homes appealing to other butterfly lovers. In fact, most people like butterflies even if they do not know much about them.
If you have an old house that is furnished with period antiques, however, you may want to be sure your use of butterfly motifs is authentic, that you are using butterflies in a way that fits in with the era of your furniture and/or your house. One way to do that is to learn more about vintage interior decoration.
Certain ideas and images were more popular or less popular in different eras. One place to find out more about what kinds of images, motifs, and colors are most suitable for your home is Period Living magazine, which specializes in not only historical information about decor of various eras but also tips for achieving an authentic period look that is compatible with contemporary tastes and lifestyles.
If the house you are decorating is a summer residence or second home, you may also want to pick up rental advertising tips to learn how to attract renters who will respect your property and take care of it. A magazine that features articles on high-value properties with fine furniture and period decor can is a good place to find tips on, for example, how to make money from your second home.
As a butterfly lover, you probably know the best places in your area to watch butterflies, where there are nearby butterfly gardens open to visitors, and which butterflies frequent your area and your own garden. Sharing such information can make your rental home very attractive to butterfly lovers from other regions.
Meanwhile you can find out the best ways to incorporate your love of butterflies into your own decor. What could be better than that?
Funding Your Butterfly Habit
From field biologists to social butterflies, we all like saving money. Some of us can’t make ends meet without getting the best possible deals on fun and necessities alike. Others use the savings fro great deals to fund butterfly tourism and other butterfly-related pursuits. In any case, we like a bargain.
Lately I’ve been seeing nomorerack reviews for a new site called No More Rack. It sounds like a great way to save money to fund your own pet projects—whether for frivolous fun or serious financial planning.
According to this review, men are now getting into the bargain-hunting game with online shopping that allows them to hunt for bargains and buy without entering a physical store, much less a mall.
Every day there are eight deals, plus one charity deal, starting at noon, Eastern Standard Time (US). They run for 24 hours, and when sold out, they are gone.
Plus there are Insanity Deals, all 85 to 90 percent off. For example, an Apple iPad for only $43.20, a Louis Vuitton handbag for $18.10, Gucci sunglasses for $9.51, or a Sony Bravia 52-inch HDTV for $59.96. (Are these people crazy?) Again, when they’re gone, they’re gone.
On top of that, you can earn gifts by referring friends to the site. They do not even have to buy anything, must create a free account.
And with the money you save, you can to take a butterfly-watching trip to Central America…or Australia…or Africa.
The Best Way to Watch Butterflies? While Lounging in the Pool!
What is the best way to watch butterflies? Outdoors, of course. So you can see them close up. But even better than that is watching butterflies will lounging in or around the swimming pool.
Plant butterfly bushes (buddleia) near your swimming pool and watch butterflies hovering around the blooming flowers on warm, sunny days. Butterflies often need a place to get a drink of water, so you can make shallow puddles for them near your pool, too, to keep them around you longer.
Be sure you also keep your own pool sparkling clean with well-chosen pool filters and pool chemicals, and everyone will have a lovely day outside. It’s easy. You can order them on line and have them delivered to your door, along with the proper instructions for maintaining your pool.
It is fun to have coffee, breakfast by the pool to watch butterflies in the early morning sunshine. Their colors just seem richer in the early light. Lunch by the pool with friends and family is just more fun with butterflies, too.
You may even want to stay out after dusk to watch their cousins the moths as the night-blooming flowers open up. Some moths, like the luna, can be spectacularly beautiful. And dinner by the pool can be delightful as the day cools down.
When your favorite species of butterfly are swarming, for example, when the monarchs migrate through your area, you’ll want to take advantage of the opportunity to stay outside with them as much as you can.
Just make sure that your pool is well maintained, as healthful and beautiful as breakfast among the butterflies.
Babies and Butterfly Watching
Soft, sling-like baby carriers are best for comfort and for reassuring the baby of your presence. They have been used in traditional cultures for years. Carrying the baby in a sling or soft carrier attached to your body, baby carrying, is also called babywearing.
But which kind of baby carrier is best? Which brand will you choose? One of the most popular carriers today is called the moby wrap. It is soft and well made and both parents and babies seem to love it.
Unless your idea of butterfly watching is to sit on the patio or indoors and gaze at whatever butterflies happen by, you probably like going to butterfly gardens, parks, preserves, fields, or even just empty lots to see how many different species of butterflies you can see and hopefully identify. It can be thrilling to catch sight of a butterfly that is rare in your part of the world.
If you have a baby to care for, that can get complicated. Do you leave the baby at home with a sitter? Or do you take him or her along for some fresh air and sunshine?
Most parents chose the latter option whenever possible. For a variety of reasons, they take the baby along.
So how do you bring along the baby? To keep your hands free for things like buying tickets and holding stair rails at the butterfly garden, taking photos, looking up species in a field guide, etc., you need to put the baby in a carrier—for your safety and theirs.
Babies seem to feel more safe and secure in baby wrap carriers. After calmly watching the world around them for awhile, they often fall asleep. That allows you to devote more attention to butterfly watching, while at the same time resting assured that your baby is as safe and comfortable as possible—and starting off right as a butterfly watcher from the start!
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Stokes Butterfly Book : The Complete Guide to Butterfly Gardening, Identification, and Behavior
Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, this large format paperback book contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need — to attract butterflies to their
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Florida Butterfly Gardening: A Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Butterflies
From the foreword:”This is a book to treasure and use. One can browse in it for a few minutes before heading to the nursery and selecting some plants to start a garden. Or one can spend hours going through it, devouring each delicious morsel of information on your favorite butterflies. . . . Careful planning with this book will make anyone a successful butterfly gardener.”–Thomas C. Emmel, director, Division of Lepidoptera Research, University of Florida”The first comprehensive guide to butterfly gardening in Florida and adjacent states . . . useful to anybody interested in butterfly gardening in Florida, but it is especially useful, even indispensable, for those who plan their garden to be an educational as well as aesthetic experience.”—Mark Deyrup, entomologist, Archbold Biological Station· presents 400+ color photos taken by the authors, showing every butterfly in adult, larva, and pupa stages· presents practical information on garden plants, installation, and maintenance·
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Ben Plants a Butterfly Garden
This lift-the-flap picture book tells the story of Ben, a bear who lovs butterflies and wants to grow some flowers that will attract them to his garden. Children can read about how he plants his seeds and watches them grow. By lifting the flaps, children can see what is happening under the
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First Home
Guest post written by my buddy Bernardo Graham
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The Butterfly Garden
When tragedy turns her life upside-down, a carefree photographer discovers that real life happens whether you want it to or not – and truth gives wings to the heart’s most important
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