Kathy
@sweetpurplelady
Mom of a Veteran, lawyer who WORKED at the Dept of Education. I have a nonprofit in Ventura Ca that gives free furniture 🏘️ when homeless people get an apartment and move in!! We are all volunteers I’m HSP and I also have only one lung so life’s tricky!!🍭
The beautiful part of the gulf fritillary butterfly with the passion flower where they lay their eggs
Here’s my gulf fritillary caterpillars 🐛 I counted 7 today. On my new vine that isn’t as bushy the birds keep coming to get them. Sigh
One on bottom one on top gulf fritillary caterpillar 🐛 turning into beautiful butterflies
Here’s my little gulf fritillary caterpillar on our passion flower. They make lovely butterflies 🦋 they only live on the alien passion flower plant
Teeny little gulf fritillary caterpillar 🐛 they love to live on our passion flower vines! Right now the bee is in there having a blast
This is the caterpillar for the gulf fritillary they only live on passion flower vines. We just moved into a new place and are so lucky to have this here
This big chubby guy is on my passion flower. He is a gulf fritillary caterpillar 🐛 and from the looks of things will get into his cocoon soon.
I wore a POW bracelet in high school- staff sergeant Donald Rander I think. All through high school and here I was yesterday! Would have rather been taking a walk at the beach but there is no where else I would have been yesterday. We are bad ass women
Here is my Gulf Fritillary caterpillar that hangs out on my passion fruit vine 💜💜
Gulf fritillary caterpillars 💜 on my passion flower vine at my new house-how lucky am I!!
And then there are days like today, his daily stomach issues let up enough for us to go to the zoo. He got his dream of seeing real red pandas. I cried
Yesterday on the longest night we had our 19th Longest Night Homeless Memorial in Ventura. I helped make most of the headstones this year for the 117 unsheltered people who we know died in our county. As I traced their names and ages I felt the sacredness of their lives.
We call ourselves Seniors in Action. We get furniture for homeless people when they are going to move into their new places! People in the community donate and we go get it. Let me tell you lifting furniture when you are 65-75 keeps you young and happy. Great camaraderie and really healthy!
Are we supposed to have things this beautiful in December?? It’s such a surprise and breathtaking
My family so assorted. This affects both of my children so much, my autistic son and beautiful black daughter. How dare they do this to the minds of all, including my kids. They are terrified
Our Moving In Project was able to provide this woman with furniture as she moved from a shelter to her own place yesterday! The 3 men with her were also from the shelter we told them we hoped we could help them with furniture soon! We give folks everything they need to move in to a place
My son Daniel was nonverbal also. They told us to teach him sign language. He is in a creative writing class now dictating to me his stories so I can transcribe. He got his bachelor’s degree in digital art. He is the most amazing human I know. I sure wouldn’t want to change him
Me in Ventura CA with the unicorns. The children loved them. One wasn’t born here but is a citizen and was very afraid. But she braved it anyway