Wordless Wednesday: Praying for rain?
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About Susan Reimer
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety. Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.
She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.
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I love praying mantises, but I confess that when one landed on me as I was weeding this weekend I shrieked before I realize what that large bug on my arm was--it landed with a thud!
Super photos, SKK!
Posted by: Dahlink | September 8, 2010 5:11 PM
And I'm not normally the type who shrieks ...
You are forgive Dahlink. They are not the most charming creatures. -- Susan
Posted by: Dahlink | September 8, 2010 5:14 PM
They are not the most charming creatures.
But entertaining to Boys.
Posted by: Eve | September 9, 2010 8:35 AM
What our boys found entertaining was to find an egg case (it looks like a glob of dried-up brown foam), put in it a big container, and wait for all the baby praying mantises to emerge. And I think it's charming that they eat of lot of other insects.
Posted by: Dahlink | September 13, 2010 4:54 PM