Just When I Thought - "Rose Garden!" - A Butterfly Hummingbird Garden Appeared

We were at the Highlands Oncology Group (H.O.G.) yesterday, and saw a hand-made poster. "Just when a caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."

This may be the original version - "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."--Richard Bach. We see many three generation groups at HOG, not always sure if it is grandparent, child, or grandchild being treated.

As readers know, I have always used Creation or organic principles in growing gardens in Michigan, Minnesota, St. Louis, and Arkansas. Various attempts to use the sunniest part of our yard in Arkansas just started to succeed this summer. In that narrowly defined and very sunny area, I have great examples of -

• Wild Ginger Hidden Lily
• Joe Pye
• Comfrey
• Yarrow
• Chaste Tree.

Recently I walked around the corner of this remote location (hardest to reach and to enjoy) - and it was alive with birds feeding, rabbits sheltering, and butterflies flying. The area is bathed in sunshine and boasts the richest soil in the yard, layers of organic matter (newspaper, wood mulch, hay bales) and plenty of earthworms.

Now we spend time on the porch, in the shade, overlooking the rose garden. Once Ranger Bob installed the hummingbird feeder, the hummingbird activity increased. Instead of catching a glimpse of them, they parade around the garden to sip the flowers and stop to feed and fight at the little feeder.

The result is not only the bird and rabbit population doing well, but the hummingbird and butterfly provide a constant source of peace, enjoyment, and surprises. Hummers are the only birds who hover and move closer to humans as they increase their trust. Two zoomed in so close that the audience started to duck. I sensed them laughing at us.

How Did This Happen?

I doubt whether the creatures are as geographical as we are, so our yard is a combination of convenient shelters and food sources for them. This took time to develop from an overgrown and seldom trimmed lot to one where the trees are pruned, the grass is cut, and a wide variety of plants are grown.

1. The backyard Gardener fence has a row of blooming Crepe Myrtle and flowering Hosta at the moment.
2. The backyard Wright fence is mostly wild, with some Butterfly Weed and raspberries. Mouse Ears are doing well, and they host a butterfly two.
3. The bedroom windows are shaded by large Butterfly Bushes that always receive extra rain water and enjoyed a lot of extra organic feeding last fall. That helped when the rains fell, so we now have blooms above the roofline and butterflies tending them.
4. The rose garden matured in many ways this summer -

• Mountain Mints
• Bee Balms
• Cat Mints
• Hosta
• Joe Pye 
• Fever Few
• Wild Strawberry
• Chaste Tree
• Crepe Myrtle
• Spirea Bush
• Daisies
• Trumpet Vine (also in the backyard)
• Balloon Flowers
• Butterfly Weed.

Beneficial insects, bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds love this combination of steady blooms, tiny flowers, and seasonal blooms, keeping them in food and shelter year around. I will transplant a lot of free Hostas, because they bloom heartily during the late summer and feed the hummers.

Fall planting seems to be viewed as food for the rabbits all winter, so the additions next spring will be:

1. More roses - Veterans Honor
2. More Joe Pye
3. More Feverfew 
4. Hibiscus for color
5. Maybe some of highly touted ground covers
6. Definitely Clethra where it can be the star of the show.

Q Updates - Rome as the Antichrist and All the Little Antichrists

Some say the D5 avalanche will start soon, but I think it has already started.

One segment of world corruption is child trafficking (and worse) - now being exposed in the grisly news about J. Epstein, Nxium, and Rachel Chandler.

When we were in Columbus, Ohio, the news often mentioned Les Wexner and his Limited conglomeration of clothing stores, including Victoria's Secret.

In Columbus wee heard about Senator McCain, whose second wife was rich from her dad's liquor business - more like their mob business in connection with Bronfman, another mobster. Thanks to Prohibition, Bronfman's Seagram whiskey was sold at premium prices to people like Joe Kennedy. And Bronfman money protected Nxium from prosecution for decades.

 Ghislane Maxwell, procurer of young girls for Epstein's schemes, posed with Murdoch, godfather of the NIV Bible. WELS and LCMS should be proud of this connection.

 Only a few attended the exclusive wedding of Chelsea Hubbell Clinton, and that included Ghislane Maxwell.  

Today I would like to emphasize the Church of Rome's participation in global corruption. Some like to think it is rather recent, but Rome has at least 500 years of tradition in that area, and the architecture of the Vatican proves how this is out in the open, slap-in-the-face real today.

The best way to get some grasp of the enormity of Rome's current corruption is to read articles by George Neumayr of the American Spectator. Clearly, the entire structure of Cardinals in Roman Catholicism is dominated by their homosexual princes:

• Spellman
• Bernadin
• Pell
• McCarrick
• Wuelr
• Many more.

The power of the Cardinals is so great that all the chatter about reform - for the last 30 years - has been an organized distraction. The noisy reform campaigns are like Werning and Kelm teaming up to get rid of Church Growth in the Missouri and Wisconsin sects.

Does anyone wonder how the WELS Wisconsin Lutheran College managed to invite Archbishop Weakland and his priests to give lectures to the public from the WLC campus? Yes, he was notorious for his boyfriend and his embezzlement of church funds to pay off the boyfriend. Such invitations do not happen by accident. The Lavender Mafia in WELS had to be involved, because colleges of any kind do not just happen to invite an archbishop and a bunch of his priest toadies to give public lectures.

Naturally, WELS lied about their scandalous involvement. They usually condemn anyone who tells the truth about their cover story, which was something like - it was only a private dinner. Sure, Roman archbishops go to private dinners at Lutheran colleges. Does anyone wonder why the Reformation's 500th was so weak in LCMS-WELS?

Pope Francis, SJ, is at the top of this global, organized crime family, known as the Roman Catholic Church.

Disgraced Archbishop Weakland, Wisconsin Lutheran College lecturer.