Spring

I found a hideously deformed caterpillar in our yard.

And then found out it’s a totally healthy caterpillar that’s going to be a beautiful butterfly.  (It’s remarkably difficult to figure out exactly which weird caterpillar your weird caterpillar is by Internet searching, but I’m pretty sure this is the lovely Limenitis arthemis.) 

I also found out our growing patches of native violets are edible, and put them on one of my favorite cakes. 

That recipe calls for two 7-8” cake pans, but I don’t own any of those, my sister doesn’t own any of those, and I don’t feel like I’ve ever seen any of those.   Of course, Amazon has more than a thousand of them.

We made do.