Our Little Visitors

Hurt no living thing:

Ladybird, nor butterfly,

Nor moth with dusty wing,

Nor cricket chirping cheerily,

Nor grasshopper so light of leap,

Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,

Nor harmless worms that creep.

Christina Rossetti

Our memory poem for the week above, lovely little thing I think. We have a rule in our house, that we are to respect all of life ugly, disgusting and even annoying because they are God's creatures, with exceptions of course. If it is in the house it is usually fair game unless someone is feeling particularly merciful one day. If it is outside and not potentially dangerous to us then we are to let it be and observe, moving it is an option if we are to disturbed by it's presence.

Now, I want to share a few friends that we have met in our backyard this week. I would like you to meet Mr. Garter, the snake. We actually found 4 of them in 2 days. Very exciting. We all enjoyed some time visiting with them and getting to know them a little better. They were quiet joyful little guests. We then let them go where we found them, T-Rex had a hard time saying good-bye.

T-Rex enjoying some one on one time.

Superman taking his turn

Here is the third guest that I found in the grass.

And here was one of our guest rooms, I hope they enjoyed their stay as much as we did. :0)

*I am hoping to begin a little lapbook on our backyard, some time soon.