Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is the friendly and accessible author of the Wondering and Wandering Blog, Christie! Please check out her webpage for her post today as well as links to other poets, authors, and all round supportive people! Thanks, Christie for hosting! My first time hosting will be next week,…
Nature is powerful! If you pay any attention to the world around you or to the news, you already know this. If nature’s power were not enough, we see that nature is changing because climate is changing. Wildfires rage in the western United States. Floods that used to occur once every decade are now occurring…
I slept fitfully last night. I had some mild anxiety about a presentation today – the first student presentation I’ve done since the pandemic started. Although I was confident with the information I was presenting and how I was presenting it (this took a little bargaining), there was still that familiar twinge of fear and…
Today, when we had our writer’s circle meeting, I talked a little bit about inspiration. I asked the students, “what inspires you?” I did not really expect an answer, so I did not get one. It was asked in more of a rhetorical way. I’ve been writing daily for over four years. I know what…
My new writer’s circle has been going well. It should really be writer’s triangle because there are only three of us. Myself as the instructor/mentor/coach and a soon to be seventh grader and fourth grader. If I had more students, I would have broken the grade levels up from 3-5 and 6-8. But, it is…
Today, I returned to volunteering. In preparation, I watched videos on YouTube, took an online orientation from Monarch Joint Venture staff and familiarized myself with forms as well as how data was to be recorded. I am now an official volunteer for the IMMP or Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program run by Monarch Joint Venture. But,…
Last week, I wrote my first post about monarch butterflies for the season. Here is what’s happened since then. Currently, I have 9 chrysalises. A few should be ready to eclose soon. Eclosure is the process of the adult butterfly emerging from the chrysalis. Two just recently changed from the caterpillar to the pupa (chrysalis)…
Plants have always interested me and when I imagine the myriad of different careers I might have chosen, a botanist or even a horticulturalist easily comes to mind. In the last couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to observe some unusual plants, right in my own backyard or neighborhood. Last fall, I saw my…
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As of leaving for our cabin on June 29th, I had only seen one monarch egg on milkweed in the field behind our house. Three or four monarch butterflies had flown through our yard, but as of this date, I had not seen any larvae or caterpillars. I know that less than fifty miles away,…