Archive for the tag 'Vacation'
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 16th 2025
Filed under Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2025
Meet Benny and Buddy
Two of the Green Iguanas that reside at Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm.
The green iguana’s extensive range comprises the rain forests of northern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and southern Brazil. They spend most of their lives in the canopy, descending only infrequently to mate, lay eggs, or change trees.
Primarily herbivores, iguanas are active during the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2025
The Mexican Red Knee lives on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in dry forest and desert habitats
Whe threatened they will not hisitate to flick hairs from their abdomen using their back legs. We call these ‘urticating Hairs’ and they can cause itchiness, swelling respiratory issues if inhaled.
Female Red Knee tarantulas can live to by as [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2025
Filed under Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2025
Green Bean Stick Insect
Green Bean stick insects are native to the Caribbean including the islands of Grenada, St Vincent and Guadeloupe.
Both males and females have vestigial wings. This means that their evolutionary ancestors had wings and were capable of flight. However, the ability to fly became less useful and so their wings diminished over many generations until they [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 4th 2025
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke 11:9
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2025
Filed under Holidays, St Albans 2024
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 2nd 2025
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2025
