Welcome to another post about the Cosmos, my favorite flower in our backyard. These pictures are from 2024, and like mentioned in the previous post, I have decided to transfer my notes on the insects pictured here to my website. Additionally, I have done my best (using google) to identify the species, but there may be mistakes. Enjoy! House Cat: Felis Catus. Our journey begins with my cat, who finds shelter from the sun under the growing leaves of the cosmos. He likes to spy on his squirrel buddies from this hiding spot too! Painted Lady Butterfly: Vanessa Cardui. Butterflies are a frequent guest to the cosmos, and this beauty stayed…

Tall Yellow Sulphur Cosmos. Scientific Name: Cosmos sulphureus. We have been growing these flowers in our garden for a long time, and they have always been very popular within our backyard insect community. I have also been taking pictures (to the best of my ability, using an iPhone 6) of these little visitors for a couple years now, but I decided to begin uploading the pictures and notes online rather than let it sit in my phone, or simply writing it in my journal. Also, the identification of all species on this post is done to the best of my ability using google, and mistakes are absolutely possible. Once this season’s…

Comics are a new form of books I have been to really get into. And because of that, I have tried my hand at cartooning. This is a full comic I drew for an English assignment.  The idea for the project eluded me for a couple weeks, but once I got it, I had the script for dialogue done in two hours. I would attribute my ENTIRE view of storytelling to two books: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, and Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. The idea of stories about stories is something I am absolutely fascinated by because these books have infiltrated the fundamental way I think, so while…

This is a paper that I wrote for my class, Ancient World Religions and Philosophy. I chose the option to choose my own topic, and having read Ovid’s Metamorphoses, there was a question I had that I really wanted to answer. Why did Ovid, a religious Roman poet, write a story about devotion towards the Egyptian gods? Here is my answer.