After Lotus Land, we had dinner at the Spiritland Bistro in Santa Barbara. It was a so nice! Several menu items were marked gluten-free, and they had some tables outside so I could get away from perfume. Then we stayed at the Bath Street Inn. I didn't like it because the sheets had been washed in smelly detergent. But breakfast on the patio was nice. Very yummy, in fact. But I can't understand why they put so much energy into homemade granola and then serve packets of Carnation powder if you want hot chocolate. But she fixed gluten-free toast special for me, so I am thankful for that.
As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, I studied Conservation of Natural Resources. I took a couple of entomology classes and became very interested in insects. After I graduated, I held several jobs working with bugs: in the fields of central California, the forests of Connecticut and Idaho, and the labs of Berkeley. Then I went to grad school and studied entomology at UC Riverside and UC Berkeley (back in the olden days when UCB had an entomology department). When my kids were little, I wanted to share my love of insects with them, so I started a butterfly garden before butterfly gardens were popular. Then of course, their teachers asked me to bring caterpillars into the classroom and I started doing classroom presentations. I do presentations in elementary schools, provide teacher trainings, teach adult school classes, and bring live insect specimens to garden fairs. My book is perfect for helping elementary school kids learn about butterflies.
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