Today is Silent Sunday. All photos are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta with all rights reserved, 2004-2017. Represented today are SOME of the self-made posters for the elementary garden clubs I taught for 15 years. Information on posters came from various scientific publications and was documented in the lesson plans. Since we did not have any…
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Environmental Lesson Planning: Happy Place for My Mind
When we were on vacation recently we met a couple. The woman, a lovely person in her mid-fifties, kept referring to the island of St. John as her happy place. She and her husband had been going to the island to vacation for the last thirty years. In April, her nephew is getting married there….
Silent Sunday: Monarch Life Cycle Photo Journal
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Slice of Life Tuesday: Election Day is Here, Get out and Vote!
Did you vote yet? My husband and I voted before noon today. We had to register at a new polling place because of our move earlier this summer. Fortunately, we researched what we’d need to do that and took the appropriate documents. This included our Wisconsin driver’s licenses for our photo id and a bill…
Poetry Friday: The Fabulous Fungi of August
You may or may not have noticed but I took a break from posting to Poetry Friday last month. We moved in June, were settling in during July, and I started writing on Medium in August. I needed some change and I got it. But one of the most fantastic things I did in August…
Silent Sunday: Forest Fungi Finds
Today is Silent Sunday. All photos are my own and there is no permission to duplicate in any fashion without my express consent. While new (an unsure) to mushroom identification, I am learning and using Peterson’s Field Guide to Mushrooms in North America and the Mushroom Hunter book. Mushrooms can be deadly. Do not eat…
A Post on Hummingbirds and My Love Affair with Them
My post can be found on Medium.com (click the website link) today. As I previously informed my regular readers, I am taking a break from Poetry Friday for the month of August. Thanks! However, I am participating in the Sealey Challenge, so I am getting loads of inspiration and enjoying the poetry I’m reading (from…
Monarch Update: Leaves Uneaten
I chose to publish my blog on Medium.com today. You can find it here (click the word, here.) I hope you click and read it. It tells a lot about who I am, what I care about, and how I’ve gone about working to preserve a species loved by many. As a preview: here are…
The Smell of Death
Have you ever seen the infamous Corpse Plant? Or, perhaps, the better question is: have you ever smelled the odor emanating from a Corpse Flower in bloom? It is said to emulate the smell of death, of rotting meat! The botanical name for this huge smelly plant is Amorphophallus titanium. Knowing I was a plant…
Poetry Friday: The First Caterpillar of the Year!
Late yesterday afternoon, I saw my first monarch caterpillar of the year. Really?! Wow, it is late. Five years ago, I saw my first larva on June 19th. We did move three hours north, but we moved to a cabin that we built in 2005 and have visited multiple times a year since. So, I…