OHC: Milkweed

Looking out on our yard all we see is a sea of brown.  The grasses are crunchy and the dirt is turning into dust.  We were skeptical when we started out on our nature walk this week if we would be able to find our challenge from our Outdoor Hour Newsletter of milkweed.  Usually it is all over the place.  We might even be able to find some monarch chrysillases attached to nearby plants.  But because it is so dry, I thought the best we could do was to look up some pictures on the internet.  We did, however, find one type of milkweed.  It was looking very sad, it had already bloomed, the seed pod was dried up.  We were able to find the seed "balloons", those feathery, cottony looking things that help the seed travel on the wind.  Which was pretty neat. 

So feeling a little better that nature hasn't completely revoked our privileges, we are going to make a project today that I will post about a little later.

Allison