Butterflies and Air Layering

Today is the first day of spring!!! that means nothing to me really, but it's fun to note i suppose. wow what a killjoy  ^_^

Out looking at the veggies and saw the prettiest butterfly hovering around. it was amazing b/c it didn't seem frightened at all of me. i was moving literally a foot or two away from him and he just floated around without a care in the world. i acually left, got my camera, came back and it still didn't seem the least bit phased. it seemed to find the soil very tasty or interesting. whatever that thing they uncurl to suck the yummies out of flowers it was using to inspect the soil. Saw a black and yellow one later on in the front i'll post it later when i'm back at home. I think i found this one so pretty b/c of the color scheme. i love that seafoam green and white against the black. I never thought of orange being a good color combo with the green and black, but the underside looked so pretty.

I bought some pink jasmine and decided that i was going to attempt to propagate it by two different means: softwood cuttings and air layering. in my book it says that you're supposed to use moss inside the bag for the roots to grow in, but since i didn't have any so i just used potting soil... i'm sure the moss is so that there's nothing that can cause disease or pests to the developing roots, but we'll see how it goes... it smells wonderful though so i hope at least one of the methods work. i got a hibiscus to root from cuttings before but the success rate was low. i need to break down and actually buy some perilite i've just been too lazy to go out and do it. if i dont get any rooting from these cuttings i'll do it proper.

random sidenote: my brother is playing modern warfare 2 for the PS3 and god that game is too real and semi disturbing. like the very first mission you go to an airport undercover and take out a ton of innocent civillians. they're all crawling to get away b/c they're wounded and you're supposed to shoot them and take them out. i mean i can deal with some gruesome stuff but to have a controller and even semi act that out... even for semi crappy polygon characters its a bit like wow. you just have to see it. god forbid Fox news got a hold of it. i know they would have a field day with it. like i can see them all outraged and going this game needs to be pulled off shelves now!!! all on an overly rightous campaign. those people scare me. i'm not gonna go all off on that though. another day.