On the way to Pasadena to see family we stopped by a favorite place of ours – Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont CA- and they had this great exhibit of larger-than-life wood sculpture insects, David Rogers’ Big Bugs, which has been traveling since its 1994 debut in Dallas. It was so nice to see how popular it was with kids. As the exhibition guide says, it gives you a chance to imagine a world where insects (which outnumber us humans millions to one) gain a size advantage. [Read more...]
To Kill or Not to Kill Spiders….and Do Spiders Bite?
December 8, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
I read an article in a small newspaper (Coast News in Encinitas) about spiders and wrote the author thanking her. It quoted her children’s favorite book, Charlotte’s Web, which happens to be my favorite childhood book, and left me a permanent fondness for spiders and pigs. None in the author’s family would kill spiders and they were in mourning over the death of a big spider that lived on their front porch.
We too do not kill spiders, none outside our house, and inside we transport any outside (my husband’s exception is black widow spiders). One of our grown sons confided in me that he, too, cannot kill spiders – you never know in what ways you affect your children. [Read more...]
