The Unknown Plant�

2002-08-02

Friday, lovely Friday. My favorite time in the whole world is 4:05 on a Friday afternoon. With the whole weekend before me. If it's a pretty day, so much the better. French fry Friday and started the day with that calm, satiated feeling I get from the carb-grease combo of french fries. Better than drugs.

Had a really nice thing happen last night. I've got four fritillary caterpillars in pupae right now and for the last week or so no matter how hard I looked I couldn't find any more caterpillars. There are little holes in the leaves here and there, but no caterpillars. I looked around yesterday afternoon, found nothing and sat down. I reached over to put my soda on the table and there it was. Dangling from the arm of my chair. A teeny tiny caterpillar. I was afraid that it might be dead because I thought it might be hanging from a spider web, but it wasn't. Then while looking for tender young leaves for it to eat I found another one.

I have a new passion flower vine comeing up from seed. For a long time I didn't know what it was. I'm used to the first couple of sets of leaves not necessarily looking like the leaves of an adult plant, but this was two feet tall. Instead of having the usual palmate leaf it had small egg-shapped leaves. Right on up the plant until it was over two feet tall. After that the leaves started morphing into the usual shape. I almost pulled it up once or twice because I didn't know what it was.

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