<p>A day late posting this one..I was out yesterday..errands, errands... Anyway, during the afternoons it starts to sizzle once more, as we are continuing to have a heat build up but it is still bearable heat, in the low 90's yesterday. A blessing as well is that during the hottest part of the day, we get the lovely shade of the city trees. </p>
<p>As readers would have seen, a frequent visitor these days in my garden are the swallowtail butterflies and they have special preference to the tropical milkweed. Not sure if it was coincidence but after their visit, the blooms got a nasty bevy of aphids...grrr..so out with the alcohol, water, dish soap, cayenne pepper mixture. I think I got most of them but there is still a second wave that came..</p>
<p>Yesterday afternoon, I was so delighted to see this welcome visitor, going up and down the tropical milkweed..and right on the part of the plant that has the aphids! Yippee! Nature has sent this shiny, red lady bug! Go ladybug, go ladybug! You are soooo welcome to stay!</p>
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