Connor's A-maze-ing Corn Maze

Every year around this time I make it a priority to stop by Connor's corn maze and this year was no different. Patrick and I switched it up a bit and went to their evening time haunted corn maze so that we could chase the light and get a tiny bit spooked.

Most of our time there was spent petting farm animals and watching bees pollinate flowers and I caught a glimpse of some sort of moth that looked like a hummingbird. It was so beautiful as the sun started setting and everything was just shades of pink and gold.

As the sun set and the farm animals were put up for the night we found a sleeping bee and I got to sit on a hay bale after most of the kids ran off.

This was the point when a child jump on the hay and said she had just puked in her mouth.

The corn maze was spectacular. Normally these things are driven more for children, but walking around in a dark dark corn maze while volunteer "scarers" walked slowly in the corn felt more like a scene from Children of the corn than a kids trick or treat thing. It was just fantastic.

My favorite part of tonight, though, has to be when we looked up. Living in the city we don't get many stars, but in a dark field we saw all of them. We were trying to determine if what we were looking at was the Milky Way galaxy, there were so many! 

Any way, it was just the most beautiful night. And I wish every night was like this.

The most beautiful life cycle

I found these beautiful caterpillars about a week and a half ago, there were ten of them all munching away and getting more and more fat before my eyes.

And then they disappeared, I couldn't find them anywhere and began to worry.

But today I found all sorts of good news. I found the cocoon first, hiding away under the plant, and then another and another. I kept looking and then I found their eggs and then the best thing was all the tiny baby caterpillars huddled together, eating a tiny leaf.

I am so happy and excited to finally get a glimpse of what butterflies these caterpillars will grow to be!

Farewell to summer

Although Florida heat will be reaching triple digits, I can tell that slowly the season is changing. 

Nights are cool and breezy, and my attitude about actually getting up and getting things done is so great now that I know fall is coming. 

August is such a strange month in Florida.

But I'm trying to really document this year since it has been a mess of emotions and time has really flown by.

My little sister just moved into her dorm room so I am practically an only child here and I'm trying to make it easier for my parents to transition by staying home and keeping them company.

My boyfriend and I wanted to catch some of this month's changes by watching a meteor shower down in Green Cove. He saw three on the way there, but it was too cloudy to catch a glimpse of anything once we got to our destination. 

But damn was our destination wonderful. Its an old airport, I think, and for some reason in the middle of the lot there is an old ship just sitting and rusting away.

These next pictures were all taken around midnight.

I'm ending my post here by saying that I've moved into my sisters old larger room and I am loving it. I have a desk and much more floor space. All I need to do to finish moving in is paint the room white and find where to hang all of my photos.

Dexter and Whiskey didn't mind sitting and watching me work, either.

Tiny afternoon trip

My sweetheart and I went to st.Augustine after I got off work today and it was so gloomy but it was also so beautiful.