Isn't he just the ugliest thing you ever saw?  I am sorry, I love birds but I think fledgling Robin's are the most akward, ugly little creations.  Well, some things are so ugly that they are cute too---know what I mean?  Like tadpoles, and baby squirrels and .......wet puppies........um........kids with spagetti all over their faces.......ok, so I have run out of examples.

When we were camping a few weeks back, this cute (ugly) little green caterpillar dropped down out of an aspen tree, right onto our cooking table.  So I promptly did what any good homeschooling mom would do; put it in an empty water bottle, with some leaves.  "Let's take this home and see what it will become!"  So, it turned in to a little brown case and of course my 6 year old kept insisting it looked dead.  Well, it did. But we kept looking at it every day, and it still looked dead.  But this morning, (Fanfare and drumroll please......) I looked in the bottle and the little "case" appeared to have a hole in one end.  And yes, there was a creature in there.  Not a beautiful, colorful butterfly, but just a lowly pale tan looking.......miller moth. 

Well, it was still one of God's little miracles, this metamorphosis we witnessed.  A few years back, we found a caterpillar that turned out to be a two-tailed swallowtail.  Now THAT was a treat!  So I took the little miller moth out and put him near the aspens in our yard, and hopefully he will be happy there.

As for this ugly little robin, his birdy parents built their nest in a spruce tree in our neighbors yard.  We enjoyed watching and learning.  Today, we found the nest on the sidewalk---the wind must have blown it out.  It looks very nice in my window box by the front door.

I know you are probably thinking I  shouldn't be calling him so ugly----but after all,  I ran around taking pictures of him didn't I?  So, maybe I don't REALLY think he is so awfully ugly....right?......

Talk to you later!

Nancy