I've discovered that I say "I don't know" quite a bit these days. What does a toucan eat? I don't know. Why do owls have yellow eyes? I don't know. And nowhere do I say it more than on our walks. It's there, outdoors, that the kids find the most confounding objects -- things that I have later come to identify, by many hours spent with guidebooks and using Google -- as various flowers, nuts, birds and insects.
The problem is I forget these quickly. One day leads into the next and suddenly we're staring again at a bug we saw last week and I'm trying to remember if that's a centipede or a millipede. So this year I've embarked upon cataloging everything we find with pictures. Here are entries into the "What's That?" Hall of Fame.
Tussock moth caterpillar
Stink bug
White dove
Variegated Fritillary
Giant Leopard Moth
Longhorn beetle
Oak galls, bald-faced hornet wasps, millipedes
Swallowtail butterfly
Hunting for inchworms
