So, I couldn't find a caterpillar small enough for the Venus trap (I did a good job picking them off), but I found a bigger one that I tried to feed to the sundew. At first, it looked like the plant won. However, by morning, the caterpillar was nowhere to be found. The sundew looked undamaged, so it's a total mystery. I bet it's gathering an army and plotting a revenge. I better be careful around my tomato plant...

Thank you, Penny, Oubliette, jenny and Roberta! I am ever more hopeful for an entire summer of hummers next season! -Thank you all for sharing your experiences and for your encouragement and support. : ) Oubliette, I have yet to hear the voice of a hummingbird -well, in the feather, that is (have heard recordings though), but I did once catch wind of the hum of this one's wings! -a unique sound, that! It's good to know that they have a voice -I look forward to listening in! You don't say, jenny! -way up on the 18th floor?!!! -I had no idea the heights these wee wildlings would go to! I really must share this with a friend of mine who's balcony is 15 lower than that -Wow, I would have never guessed! Thank you for sharing. I know I'll likely never see the numbers that California Frank is graced with (just saw his photo album - Wow! -hummingbird heaven!), but one, two or even a few jewels setting claim on my small urban garden will fit just right. Keep a humm in your heart! ~Shadyswing

I don't particularly like The Daughter of Time as a detective novel, although I did enjoy reading it as I have with all of Tey's Books. I think it's an interesting exercise in research and deduction, but I don't really understand the obsession many people seem to have with the mystery of the princes in the tower. I am far more interested in the reasons why and the mechanisms though which some royals became or were made into villains or heroes by their successors or by the people after they were dead, or even by changing times, and The Daughter of Time gave me some insight into that. Examples include Richard III being painted blacker than he perhaps was for centuries and then little by little becoming to be seen as less bad or even great (depending on the historian), or Richard I being made into the heroic, almost saintly figure of Good King Richard Lionheart during his lifetime and remaining so for centuries after his death, and in modern times being seen as less good or even bad because of attitudes having changed.

Ms Negativity is the one who told me I needed to go to Church to get rid of my very normal deep thoughts before I go to bed at night. 😈 I didn't get Taylor in the beginning either until I actually started paying attention to her songs. Not only young girls like her, but older women do too because she writes songs for us now that we can all relate to. This song especially relates to most of us out of high school, even many moons ago. It was allegedly written about Travis.