Prairie House LLC

Don’t forget the clocks fall back an hour tomorrow - wishing you and your families a blessed pre-holiday season!

This beauty was so intent on getting nectar from every flower on the rosinweed plant she didn’t seem to mind my taking a few photos. The female black swallowtails tend to be larger than the males with blue markings on the back, and males have yellow markings! The underwing is more colorfully marked with yellow, blue and orange. Unlike the monarch, they don’t migrate but instead overwinter here in Wisconsin in the chrysalis form that resembles a dried leaf. Their favorite plants are in the carrot family - dill, parsley and queen Ann’s lace (wild carrot).

We wish you and your families a safe and wonderful 4th of July!
After a dry spring we’re grateful to have gotten some rain last week for the prairie, gardens, cherries and berries. . . here are some rainy day photos - take care and hope that you enjoy this window of summer in bloom!

Happy Mother’s Day from the Prairie House! Erin captured the photo of the baby sandhill crossing the road - the other baby was dawdling behind in the grass. . .what’s a mom to do?
The spring songbirds are nesting around the farm - a purple finch family has taken over the wreath on the front door. With gratitude for the miracle of birth and our innate capacity to nurture, mentor and care for others, the world, ourselves💖🌎.