Fall – Just 2 Days Later

Autumn is on her own schedule. She seems to pay no mind to temperatures, to incoming storms; she just pulls out her paints and brushes, and in her own time gently strokes the trees with gold, oranges, crimson and amber. Here, just 2 days later, is the same tree that appears in my last post.

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Fall Within 100 Feet

I have had a 100 things to blog about, all swimming, swirling in my head. But at the moment am coping with something else, and the thoughts are just not solidifying. (One thing I want to write about, having just seen Where the Wild Things Are and finished reading Coraline, is about what happens when [...]

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The Orangutan and Hound – A Short Love Story

I see a lot – I mean a lot  - of cute, (and not-so-cute), animal stuff because it is a large part of my professional and personal life. And yes, I have seen my fair share of cute inter-species animal stories, videos, etc. This one, new to me, was particularly heartwarming.
This made my day – hope [...]

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Summer’s Last Breath

As the sun and the earth dance through the Equinox, summer exhales and shares her final gifts.

The last perfect rose of summer blooms, defying the empty, withering stalks of Hosta and drying grass.

The tall grasses in the backyard bloom in bursts of sunlit wheat.

The praying mantis I’ve been getting to know, mated, and the next [...]

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Praying Mantis – Bravery? or Suicide Wish?

This morning as I opened windows and doors for the wonderful fresh air, I noticed a small-ish bright green fellow (or lady) on the top of my side porch stairs. It was clearly a young praying mantis, so I very quietly went to check her out. She is about 3″ long, which makes her still [...]

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Winged Migration – A Spectacular Visual Treat

This movie, released in 2003, is one of the most spectacular I have seen. There is almost no narration, there are occasional notes on the bottom of the screen indicating the type of bird and the location and distance it flies during migration, and the most incredible music created just for the film. Not to [...]

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The Deer Ate Them

Who was it that said “No good deed goes unpunished?” Seems so true on this count! Because I am so behind in getting flowers in pots around the house, I decided a couple of weeks ago to at least buy two big pots of lovely pink, dark-leaved begonias for the edge of my front porch. [...]

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The Gift of A Whale

They heard him singing.  70 miles off the coast of Long Island and New York City, he sang …. a blue whale. This magnificent creature, nearly hunted to extinction in the mid-20th century, when nations created an accord to protect them, once swam these waters and sang.
Blue whales, at up to 108 feet in length [...]

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