Aphids invaded my milkweed

I’ve heard of it happening to others. But it has never happened to me…until this year. My milkweed plants are covered with hundreds of tiny orange-yellow aphids, creatures that I’d probably find cute under different circumstances. However, their infestation has made my milkweed inhospitable for wayfaring Monarch butterflies.

Applying pesticides isn’t an option, especially not in a pollinator garden.

A Tale of Two Road Trips

If at first you don’t succeed...

 This is my Mea Culpa for not succeeding, or rather my Mea Cuppa, because my failure was using too many disposable cups on a recent road trip.

In the past month and half, I’ve taken two multi-day trips.  On the first, I used a number of disposable, single-use cups.  But I learned from this and reduced my use of disposable cups on the second trip.